Max Fraden
Biographic Data
| ID | 7990415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Fraden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraden |
| SIGNATURE | FRADEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Global Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reversing the tide of tuberculosis in India
In 1993, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global health threat, adopted the Directly Observed Therapy - Short Course (DOTS) strategy, and set two targets for control and elimination of the disease: to detect 70% of sputum smear positive cases and to successfully treat 85% of those cases. The recommended diagnostic tool under DOTS remains sputum smear microscopy, a simple, yet ineffective, technique that only detect…
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Reversing the tide of tuberculosis in India
In 1993, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) a global health threat, adopted the Directly Observed Therapy - Short Course (DOTS) strategy, and set two targets for control and elimination of the disease: to detect 70% of sputum smear positive cases and to successfully treat 85% of those cases. The recommended diagnostic tool under DOTS remains sputum smear microscopy, a simple, yet ineffective, technique that only detect…
Environmental health (1 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (1 works) · Immunology (1 works) · Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (1 works) · Medicine (1 works) · Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (1 works) · Pathology (1 works) · Population (1 works) · Sputum (1 works) · Tuberculosis (1 works)