Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study

BACKGROUND: The Xpert MTB/RIF test (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) can detect tuberculosis and its multidrug-resistant form with very high sensitivity and specificity in controlled studies, but no performance data exist from district and subdistrict health facilities in tuberculosis-endemic countries....

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Autores principales: Boehme, Catharina C, Nicol, Mark P, Nabeta, Pamela, Michael, Joy S, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Tahirli, Rasim, Gler, Ma Tarcela, Blakemore, Robert, Worodria, William, Gray, Christen, Huang, Laurence, Caceres, Tatiana, Mehdiyev, Rafail, Raymond, Lawrence, Whitelaw, Andrew, Sagadevan, Kalaiselvan, Alexander, Heather, Albert, Heidi, Cobelens, Frank, Cox, Helen, Alland, David, Perkins, Mark D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lancet Publishing Group 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60438-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085933/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60438-8

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