Volume 8, Number 11—November 2002

Research

Tuberculosis-Related Deaths within a Well-Functioning DOTS Control Program

Maria de Lourdes García-García*, Alfredo Ponce-de-León†, Maria Cecilia García-Sancho‡, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes*, Manuel Palacios-Martínez*, Javier Fuentes§, Midori Kato-Maeda†, Miriam Bobadilla†, Peter Small¶, and Jose Sifuentes-Osornio†

Author affiliations: *Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México; †Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán,” México City, México; ‡Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México City, Mexico; §Secretaría de Salud del Estado de Veracruz, Xalapa, México; ¶Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA;

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Figure. Estimated survival of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients according to clustered or unique fingerprint pattern in a low HIV-prevalence community (p=0.01).

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