La cuerda dulce – a tolerability and acceptability study of a novel approach to specimen collection for diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Recent data demonstrate the utility of the string test for the diagnosis of sputum-scarce HIV-associated TB in adults. We hypothesized that, if well-tolerated by children, this simple tool might offer a breakthrough in paediatric TB diagnosis. Thus the objective of this study, undertaken...

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Autores principales: Chow, Felicia, Espiritu, Nora, Gilman, Robert H, Gutierrez, Rosmery, Lopez, Sonia, Escombe, A Roderick, Evans, Carlton AW, Moore, David AJ
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1484483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16595008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-67

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1484483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16595008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-67

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