| dc.contributor |
Médecins sans Frontières Tuberculosis Programme, Khao-I-Dang, Prachinburi, Thailand. |
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| dc.creator |
Sukrakanchana-Trikham, P |
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| dc.creator |
Puéchal, X |
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| dc.creator |
Rigal, J |
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| dc.creator |
Rieder, H L |
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| dc.date |
1992-12 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:10:15Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:10:15Z |
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| dc.identifier |
10-year assessment of treatment outcome among Cambodian refugees with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis in Khao-I-Dang, Thailand. 1992, 73 (6):384-7 Tuber. Lung Dis. |
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| dc.identifier |
0962-8479 |
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| dc.identifier |
1292720 |
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| dc.identifier |
Tubercle and Lung Disease |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/19976 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/125284 |
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| dc.description |
Tuberculosis control among displaced persons is fraught with difficulties to ensure adherence of patients to treatment for a prolonged period of time. In the Khao-I-Dang camp for Cambodian refugees an approach with daily, directly observed treatment throughout the course of 6 months duration was chosen to address the problem. Of a total 929 patients with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis who were enrolled from 1981 to 1990, 5.0% died, 75.5% completed treatment and were bacteriologically cured with a day-to-day adherence of more than 98%, none failed bacteriologically, 19.2% were transferred to another camp where continuation of treatment was guaranteed, and only 0.4% absconded from treatment. These data suggest that the approach to tuberculosis control in this refugee camp was very effective in cutting the chain of transmission of tuberculosis in a highly mobile population and in reducing substantially unnecessary morbidity and mortality. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease |
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| dc.rights |
Archived on this site with the kind permission of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (www.iuatld.org) |
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| dc.title |
10-year assessment of treatment outcome among Cambodian refugees with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis in Khao-I-Dang, Thailand. |
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