Cost-effectiveness analysis of PCR for the rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is one of the most prominent health problems in the world, causing 1.75 million deaths each year. Rapid clinical diagnosis is important in patients who have co-morbidities such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Direct microscopy has low sensitivity and culture...

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Autores principales: Scherer, Luciene C, Sperhacke, Rosa D, Ruffino-Netto, Antonio, Rossetti, Maria LR, Vater, Claudia, Klatser, Paul, Kritski, Afrânio L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20043842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-216

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