More should be done now for patients with TB-associated chronic lung disease

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rehabilitation, University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² UCSF Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Sleep Disorders Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA <email></email>, Email: john.metcalfe@ucsf.edu.

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C Tadyanemhandu et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 1;23(10):1122-1123.

doi: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0201.

¹ Department of Rehabilitation, University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² UCSF Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Sleep Disorders Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA <email></email>, Email: john.metcalfe@ucsf.edu.

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Chronic lung disease in adult recurrent tuberculosis survivors in Zimbabwe: a cohort study.
Chin AT, Rylance J, Makumbirofa S, Meffert S, Vu T, Clayton J, Mason P, Woodruff P, Metcalfe J. Chin AT, et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019 Feb 1;23(2):203-211. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0313. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019. PMID: 30808453 Free PMC article.
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Harries AD, Chakaya JM. Harries AD, et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019 Sep 1;23(9):1044-1045. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0168. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019. PMID: 31615616 No abstract available.

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