Diagnosis of tuberculosis from smear-negative presumptive TB cases using Xpert MTB/Rif assay: a cross-sectional study from Nepal

BACKGROUND: In most developing countries, smear-negative pulmonary TB (SNPT) often gets missed from the diagnosis of consideration, though it accounts 30–65% of total PTB cases, due to deficient or inaccessible molecular diagnostic modalities. METHODS: The cross-sectional study enrolled 360 patients...

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Autores principales: Khadka, Priyatam, Thapaliya, Januka, Basnet, Ramesh Bahadur, Ghimire, Gokarna Raj, Amatya, Jyoti, Rijal, Basista Parsad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4728-2

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