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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. ...
Autores principales: | Datta, Sumona, Sherman, Jonathan M., Bravard, Marjory A., Valencia, Teresa, Gilman, Robert H., Evans, Carlton A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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