Enhancing TB Case Detection: Experience in Offering Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing to Pediatric Presumptive TB and DR TB Cases for Early Rapid Diagnosis of Drug Sensitive and Drug Resistant TB

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children is challenging due to difficulties in obtaining good quality sputum specimens as well as the paucibacillary nature of disease. Globally a large proportion of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases are diagnosed based only on clinical findi...

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Autores principales: Raizada, Neeraj, Sachdeva, Kuldeep Singh, Nair, Sreenivas Achuthan, Kulsange, Shubhangi, Gupta, Radhey Shayam, Thakur, Rahul, Parmar, Malik, Gray, Christen, Ramachandran, Ranjani, Vadera, Bhavin, Ekka, Shobha, Dhawan, Shikha, Babre, Ameet, Ghedia, Mayank, Alavadi, Umesh, Dewan, Puneet, Khetrapal, Mini, Khanna, Ashwini, Boehme, Catharina, Paramsivan, Chinnambedu Nainarappan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25140877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105346

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