High level of initial default among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in eThekwini health district, KwaZulu-Natal
| dc.contributor.author | Cele, Lindiwe P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Knight, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Webb, Elizabeth M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tint, Khin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dlungwane, Thembelihle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-21T10:51:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-21T10:51:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this study, initial tuberculosis (TB) default was measured in clinics in a district with a high incidence of TB. A retrospective review of TB case identification registers in 2007 found 4049 (9.0%) new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases from 44 987 suspects. There were 725 (17.9%) initial defaulters. Fifty-three percent of those traced had already died. TB is the leading cause of death in South Africa due to an infectious disease, and the high level of initial defaults in PTB is one of the “unresolved issues” in TB control programmes that needs to be addressed. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | am2017 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ojid20 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cele, LP, Knight, S, Webb, E, Tint, K & Dlungwane, T 2016, 'High level of initial default among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in eThekwini health district, KwaZulu-Natal', Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 41-43. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2312-0053 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2313-1810 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/23120053.2016.1128139 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59141 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd, Taylor & Francis, and Informa business | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Tuberculosis (TB) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | eThekwini health district | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | High level of initial default among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in eThekwini health district, KwaZulu-Natal | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |