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GeneXpert in stool: Diagnostic yield in Intestinal Tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Diagnosing intestinal (Luminal) tuberculosis is challenging due to limited yield of diagnostic modalities like CT scan, colonoscopy with blind ileal biopsies. GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assays for diagnosing tuberculosis have been performed in the body secretions with excellent results. I...

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Autores principales: Talib, Abu, Bhatty, Shaheen, Mehmood, Khalid, Naim, Huda, Haider, Iftikhar, Lal, Hari, Ali, Gohar, Nashit, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2019.100131