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February 24, 2024Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial DiseasesOpen Access

Negative effects of undernutrition on sputum smear conversion and treatment success among retreatment cases in Uganda: A quasi-experimental study

Jonathan Izudi Francis Bajunirwe Adithya Cattamanchi

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The causal relationship between undernutrition and response to anti-tuberculosis (TB) treatment and TB treatment outcomes among people with retreatment TB is understudied.

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Izudi et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e77b43b6db6435876f0061 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2024.100422

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