The Diagnostic Accuracy of Urine-Based Xpert MTB/RIF in HIV-Infected Hospitalized Patients Who Are Smear-Negative or Sputum Scarce

BACKGROUND: Hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa are inundated with HIV-infected patients and tuberculosis (TB) is the commonest opportunistic infection in this sub-group. Up to one third of TB-HIV co-infected patients fail to produce a sputum sample (sputum scarce) and diagnosis is thus often delayed or...

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Autores principales: Peter, Jonathan G., Theron, Grant, Muchinga, Tapuwa E., Govender, Ureshnie, Dheda, Keertan
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/PMC3392260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22815718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039966

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