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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...
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 |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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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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