Discriminating Active from Latent Tuberculosis in Patients Presenting to Community Clinics

BACKGROUND: Because of the high global prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI), a key challenge in endemic settings is distinguishing patients with active TB from patients with overlapping clinical symptoms without active TB but with co-existing LTBI. Current methods are insufficiently accurate. Pl...

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Autores principales: Sandhu, Gurjinder, Battaglia, Francesca, Ely, Barry K., Athanasakis, Dimitrios, Montoya, Rosario, Valencia, Teresa, Gilman, Robert H., Evans, Carlton A., Friedland, Jon S., Fernandez-Reyes, Delmiro, Agranoff, Daniel D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038080

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22666453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038080

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