Low enrollment and high treatment success in children with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A ten years national retrospective cohort study

Habteyes Hailu Tola; Kourosh Holakouie-Naieni; Mohammad Ali Mansournia; Mehdi Yaseri; Ephrem Tesfaye; Zemedu Mahamed; Million Molla Sisay

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229284

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Low enrollment and high treatment success in children with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A ten years national retrospective cohort study

Habteyes Hailu Tola,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Tehran, Iran, Tuberculosis/HIV Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Kourosh Holakouie-Naieni ,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: holakoik@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0623-7503

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Mohammad Ali Mansournia,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Tehran, Iran
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Mehdi Yaseri,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4066-873X

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Ephrem Tesfaye,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tuberculosis/HIV Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Zemedu Mahamed,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tuberculosis/HIV Research Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Million Molla Sisay

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Saint Peter’s Specialized Hospital, Research and Evidence Generation Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2021-8440

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Low enrollment and high treatment success in children with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A ten years national retrospective cohort study

Habteyes Hailu Tola,
Kourosh Holakouie-Naieni,
Mohammad Ali Mansournia,
Mehdi Yaseri,
Ephrem Tesfaye,
Zemedu Mahamed,
Million Molla Sisay

Published: February 26, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229284

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