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Feasibility of Decentralised Deployment of Xpert MTB/RIF Test at Lower Level of Health System in India
BACKGROUND: Xpert MTB/RIF is an automated cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test that has demonstrated its potential to detect tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance with high accuracy. To assist scale-up decisions in India, a feasibility assessment of Xpert MTB/RIF implementation was condu...
Autores principales: | Raizada, Neeraj, Sachdeva, K. S., Sreenivas, Achuthan, Vadera, Bhavin, Gupta, R. S., Parmar, Malik, Kulsange, Shubhangi, Babre, Ameet, Thakur, Rahul, Gray, Christen, Ramachandran, Ranjani, Alavadi, Umesh, Ghedia, Mayank, Vollepore, Balasangameshwara, Dewan, Puneet, Boehme, Catharina, Paramsivan, C. N. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089301 |
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