Impact of introducing integrated quality assessment for tuberculosis and malaria microscopy in Kano, Nigeria | Zendy

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Impact of introducing integrated quality assessment for tuberculosis and malaria microscopy in Kano, Nigeria

Author(s) -

F Sarkinfada,

Yunusa Aliyu,

C. J. Chavasse,

Imelda Bates

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.101

Subject(s) - malaria , tuberculosis , quality assessment , virology , external quality assessment , medicine , immunology , pathology

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the integration of malaria microscopy quality assessment (QA) with that of other microscopically diagnosed diseases, but there is no evidence that it has been attempted. We assessed the feasibility of linking malaria microscopy into the existing tuberculosis (TB) microscopy QA system in Kano, Nigeria.

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