Sensitivity and specificity of using trial-of-antibiotics versus sputum mycobacteriology for diagnosis of tuberculosis: protocol for a systematic literature review

BACKGROUND: Suboptimal diagnostics for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) drives use of ‘trial-of-antibiotics (non-tuberculosis)’ in an attempt to distinguish PTB patients from those with bacterial lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI). The underlying assumption—that patients with LRTI will report ‘res...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Divala, Titus H., Fielding, Katherine L., Nliwasa, Marriott, Sloan, Derek J., Gupta-Wright, Ankur, Corbett, Elizabeth L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30219089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0806-6

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30219089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0806-6

Ejemplares similares