Combined assessment of tuberculosis case notification rate and infection control at health facilities of Dale districts, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

• Makka Adam Ali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Makka Adam Ali, Ermias Sissay Balcha

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yirgalem Hospital Medical College, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

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• Ermias Sissay Balcha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Makka Adam Ali, Ermias Sissay Balcha

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

  * E-mail: ermisislund@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3867-0096

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• Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0704-1636

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• Lopisso Dessalegn Tirore

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yirgalem Hospital Medical College, Yirgalem, Ethiopia

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