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Impact of introducing fluorescent microscopy on hospital tuberculosis control: A before-after study at a high caseload medical center in Taiwan
BACKGROUND: Undiagnosed tuberculosis (TB) patients hospitalized because of comorbidities constitute a challenge to TB control in hospitals. We aimed to assess the impact of introducing highly sensitive fluorescent microscopy for examining sputum smear to replace conventional microscopy under a high...
Autores principales: | Sun, Hsin-Yun, Wang, Jann-Yuan, Chen, Yee-Chun, Hsueh, Po-Ren, Chen, Yi-Hsuan, Chuang, Yu-Chung, Fang, Chi-Tai, Chang, Shan-Chwen, Wang, Jung-Der |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32243434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230067 |
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