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Evaluation of Giant African Pouched Rats for Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Patients from a High-Endemic Setting

BACKGROUND: This study established evidence about the diagnostic performance of trained giant African pouched rats for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum of well-characterised patients with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) in a high-burden setting. METHODS: The TB detection rats were evalua...

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Autores principales: Reither, Klaus, Jugheli, Levan, Glass, Tracy R., Sasamalo, Mohamed, Mhimbira, Francis A., Weetjens, Bart J., Cox, Christophe, Edwards, Timothy L., Mulder, Christiaan, Beyene, Negussie W., Mahoney, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26445086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135877