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Commercial Nucleic-Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Respiratory Specimens: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression

BACKGROUND: Hundreds of studies have evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of nucleic-acid amplification tests (NAATs) for tuberculosis (TB). Commercial tests have been shown to give more consistent results than in-house assays. Previous meta-analyses have found high specificity but low and highly varia...

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Autores principales: Ling, Daphne I., Flores, Laura L., Riley, Lee W., Pai, Madhukar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18253484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001536