Pediatric tuberculosis-human immunodeficiency virus co-infection in the United Kingdom highlights the need for better therapy monitoring tools: a case report

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is an infection that requires at least 6 months of chemotherapy in order to clear the bacteria from the patient’s lungs. Usually, therapeutic monitoring is dependent on smear microscopy where a decline in acid-fast bacilli is observed. However, this might not be indicative o...

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Autores principales: Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios, Whittaker, Elizabeth, Honeyborne, Isobella, McHugh, Timothy D., Klein, Nigel, Shingadia, Delane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28236807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1222-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28236807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1222-6

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