Alcohol drinking delays the rate of sputum smear conversion among DR-TB patients in northwest Ethiopia; A retrospective follow-up study

• Mehari Woldemariam Merid ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mehariho19@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0231-6722

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• Atalay Goshu Muluneh,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Getahun Molla Kassa

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9926-7797

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