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High yield of culture-based diagnosis in a TB-endemic setting

BACKGROUND: In most of the world, microbiologic diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is limited to microscopy. Recent guidelines recommend culture-based diagnosis where feasible. METHODS: In order to evaluate the relative and absolute incremental diagnostic yield of culture-based diagnosis in a high-incid...

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Autores principales: Demers, Anne-Marie, Verver, Suzanne, Boulle, Andrew, Warren, Robin, van Helden, Paul, Behr, Marcel A, Coetzee, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22978323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-218