Rational use of Xpert testing in patients with presumptive TB: clinicians should be encouraged to use the test-treat threshold

BACKGROUND: A recently published Ugandan study on tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in HIV-positive patients with presumptive smear-negative TB, which showed that out of 90 patients who started TB treatment, 20% (18/90) had a positive Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) test, 24% (22/90) had a negative Xpert test, and...

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Autores principales: Decroo, Tom, Henríquez-Trujillo, Aquiles R., De Weggheleire, Anja, Lynen, Lutgarde
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/PMC5637087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2798-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2798-6

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