Piloting Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing on Various Specimens under Programmatic Conditions for Diagnosis of TB & DR-TB in Paediatric Population

BACKGROUND: India accounts for one-fifth of the global TB incidence. While the exact burden of childhood TB is not known, TB remains one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in India. Bacteriological confirmation of TB in children is challenging due to difficulty in obtaining quality specime...

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Autores principales: Raizada, Neeraj, Sachdeva, Kuldeep Singh, Swaminathan, Soumya, Kulsange, Shubhangi, Khaparde, Sunil D., Nair, Sreenivas Achuthan, Khanna, Ashwani, Chopra, Kamal Kishore, Hanif, Mahmud, Sethi, Gulshan Rai, Umadevi, K. R., Keshav Chander, G., Saha, Brojakishore, Shah, Amar, Parmar, Malik, Ghediya, Mayank, Jaju, Jyoti, Boehme, Catharina, Paramasivan, Chinnambedu Nainarappan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140375

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140375

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