Treatment decisions and mortality in HIV-positive presumptive smear-negative TB in the Xpert® MTB/RIF era: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: The Xpert® MTB/RIF (XP) has a higher sensitivity than sputum smear microscopy (70% versus 35%) for TB diagnosis and has been endorsed by the WHO for TB high burden countries to increase case finding among HIV co-infected presumptive TB patients. Its impact on the diagnosis of smear-negat...

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Autores principales: Hermans, Sabine M., Babirye, Juliet A., Mbabazi, Olive, Kakooza, Francis, Colebunders, Robert, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Sekaggya-Wiltshire, Christine, Parkes-Ratanshi, Rosalind, Manabe, Yukari C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28622763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2534-2

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