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2000. Rapid, Point-of-care Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with Novel Truenat Assay: Cost-Effectiveness and Budgetary Impact Analysis for India’s Public Sector

BACKGROUND: Point-of-care (POC) tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics may dramatically improve TB outcomes. Truenat is a new, battery-powered RT-PCR device that rapidly detects TB and rifampin resistance. Due to its portability, it may be valuable in peripheral healthcare settings. We evaluated the cost-eff...

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Autores principales: Lee, David J, Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran, Resch, Stephen, Sivaramakrishnan, Gomathi N, Mayer, Kenneth, Tripathy, Srikanth, Paltiel, A David, Freedberg, Kenneth, Reddy, Krishna P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254532/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.1656