Light Emitting Diode Fluorescence Microscopy increased the detection of smear-positives during follow-up of Tuberculosis patients in India: program implications

BACKGROUND: In India, since July 2012, at designated Microscopy Centers (DMCs) in 200 medical colleges, sputum smear examination for tuberculosis bacilli changed from Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) method to auramine based Light Emitting Diode Fluorescent Microscopy (LED-FM) method. We assessed the additional y...

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Autores principales: Thapa, Badri, Reza, Lord Wasim, Kumar, Ajay MV, Pandey, Ashish, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Chadha, Sarabjit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26499322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1584-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26499322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1584-z

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