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Clinical Evaluation of Tuberculosis Viability Microscopy for Assessing Treatment Response

Background. It is difficult to determine whether early tuberculosis treatment is effective in reducing the infectiousness of patients' sputum, because culture takes weeks and conventional acid-fast sputum microscopy and molecular tests cannot differentiate live from dead tuberculosis. Methods. ...

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Autores principales: Datta, Sumona, Sherman, Jonathan M., Bravard, Marjory A., Valencia, Teresa, Gilman, Robert H., Evans, Carlton A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25537870
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciu1153