Impact of introducing fluorescent microscopy on hospital tuberculosis control: A before-after study at a high caseload medical center in Taiwan

• Hsin-Yun Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jann-Yuan Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yee-Chun Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Po-Ren Hsueh,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yi-Hsuan Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yu-Chung Chuang,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3094-8276

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• Chi-Tai Fang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fangct@ntu.edu.tw

  Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7380-1699

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• Shan-Chwen Chang,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jung-Der Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Departments of Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3176-4500

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