Blinded rechecking of sputum smear microscopy performance in public health facilities in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia: Retrospective cross sectional study

• Letebrhan Weldemhret ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: letinaweldemhret@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6951-5702

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• Ataklti Hailu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Goyitom Gebremedhn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Hadish Bekuretsion,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Gebreselassie Alemseged,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Gebremicheal Gebreegziabher,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Gebrhiwot Tesfahuney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Tesfaye Berhe,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Challenge TB, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Lemlem Legesse,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Kelali Kalayu,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Mesfin Tesfay,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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• Kibrti Mehari

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory Research Diagnostic and Quality Assurance Directorate, Tigray Health Research Institute, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

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