A user-friendly, open-source tool to project impact and cost of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis
Most models of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), do not provide results customized to local conditions. We created a dynamic transmission model to project TB incidence, TB mortality, multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB prevalence, and incremental costs over 5 years after scale-up of nine al...
Main Authors: | David W Dowdy, Jason R Andrews, Peter J Dodd, Robert H Gilman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2014-06-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/02565 |
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