Modeling the patient and health system impacts of alternative xpert® MTB/RIF algorithms for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: To reduce global tuberculosis (TB) burden, the active disease must be diagnosed quickly and accurately and patients should be treated and cured. In Ethiopia, TB diagnosis mainly relies on spot-morning-spot (SMS) sputum sample smear analysis using Ziehl-Neelsen staining techniques (ZN). S...

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Autores principales: Tesfaye, Abraham, Fiseha, Daniel, Assefa, Dawit, Klinkenberg, Eveline, Balanco, Silvia, Langley, Ivor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28464797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2417-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28464797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2417-6

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