TY - JOUR AU - Saqib, Shahab E AU - Ahmad, Mokbul Morshed AU - Amezcua-Prieto, Carmen AU - Virginia, Martínez-Ruiz PY - 2018 DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0001 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/12469 T2 - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene AB - Delay in diagnosis and treatment worsens the disease and clinical outcomes, which further enhances transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in the community. Therefore, this study aims to assess treatment delay and its associated factors among pulmonary TB... LA - en KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Antitubercular Agents KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - Cross-Sectional Studies KW - Delayed Diagnosis KW - Female KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice KW - Health Services Accessibility KW - Humans KW - Logistic Models KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - Odds Ratio KW - Pakistan KW - Poverty KW - Rural Population KW - Social Class KW - Time-to-Treatment KW - Tuberculosis, Pulmonary TI - Treatment Delay among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients within the Pakistan National Tuberculosis Control Program. TY - research article VL - 99 ER -