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Challenges of Loss to Follow-up in Tuberculosis Research

BACKGROUND: In studies evaluating methods for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB), follow-up to verify the presence or absence of active TB is crucial and high dropout rates may significantly affect the validity of the results. In a study assessing the diagnostic performance of the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-...

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Autores principales:	Nissen, Thomas N., Rose, Michala V., Kimaro, Godfather, Bygbjerg, Ib C., Mfinanga, Sayoki G., Ravn, Pernille
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2012
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395690/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040183

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