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Accelerating access to quality TB care for pediatric TB cases through better diagnostic strategy in four major cities of India
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of TB in children is challenging, and is largely based on positive history of contact with a TB case, clinical and radiological findings, often without microbiological confirmation. Diagnostic efforts are also undermined by challenges in specimen collection and the limited avai...
Autores principales: | Raizada, Neeraj, Khaparde, Sunil D., Salhotra, Virender Singh, Rao, Raghuram, Kalra, Aakshi, Swaminathan, Soumya, Khanna, Ashwani, Chopra, Kamal Kishore, Hanif, M., Singh, Varinder, Umadevi, K. R., Nair, Sreenivas Achuthan, Huddart, Sophie, Prakash, C. H. Surya, Mall, Shalini, Singh, Pooja, Saha, B. K., Denkinger, Claudia M., Boehme, Catharina, Sarin, Sanjay |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830996/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29489887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193194 |
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