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Modeling the impact of novel diagnostic tests on pediatric and extrapulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and most pediatric TB cannot be diagnosed using sputum-based assays. The epidemiological impact of different strategies to diagnose EPTB and pediatric TB is unclear. METHODS: We developed a dynamic epidemic model of TB in a hypothetical population with...

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Autores principales: Denkinger, Claudia M, Kampmann, Beate, Ahmed, Syed, Dowdy, David W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25186052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-477