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Clinical and Radiographic Factors Do Not Accurately Diagnose Smear-Negative Tuberculosis in HIV-infected Inpatients in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study
BACKGROUND: Although World Health Organization guidelines recommend clinical judgment and chest radiography for diagnosing tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults with unexplained cough and negative sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli, the diagnostic performance of this approach is unknown. Therefore, w...
Autores principales: | Davis, J. Lucian, Worodria, William, Kisembo, Harriet, Metcalfe, John Z., Cattamanchi, Adithya, Kawooya, Michael, Kyeyune, Rachel, den Boon, Saskia, Powell, Krista, Okello, Richard, Yoo, Samuel, Huang, Laurence |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20361038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009859 |
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