Implementation status of national tuberculosis infection control guidelines in Bangladeshi hospitals

Arifa Nazneen; Sayeeda Tarannum; Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury; Mohammad Tauhidul Islam; S. M. Hasibul Islam; Shahriar Ahmed; Sayera Banu; Md Saiful Islam

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246923

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Implementation status of national tuberculosis infection control guidelines in Bangladeshi hospitals

Arifa Nazneen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Arifa Nazneen, Sayeeda Tarannum

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: arifa.nazneen@icddrb.org

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9699-0947

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Sayeeda Tarannum ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Arifa Nazneen, Sayeeda Tarannum

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Mohammad Tauhidul Islam ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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S. M. Hasibul Islam ,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Shahriar Ahmed,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Sayera Banu,

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

Affiliation Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Md Saiful Islam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Programme for Emerging Infections, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
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Implementation status of national tuberculosis infection control guidelines in Bangladeshi hospitals

Arifa Nazneen,
Sayeeda Tarannum,
Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury,
Mohammad Tauhidul Islam,
S. M. Hasibul Islam,
Shahriar Ahmed,
Sayera Banu,
Md Saiful Islam

Published: February 16, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246923

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