Study protocol: a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of onsite GeneXpert testing at community health centers in Uganda (XPEL-TB)

BACKGROUND: Delays in diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remain common in high-burden countries. To improve case detection, substantial investments have been made to scale-up Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert), a cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test that can detect TB within 2 hours, as a re...

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Autores principales: Reza, Tania F., Nalugwa, Talemwa, Farr, Katherine, Nantale, Mariam, Oyuku, Denis, Nakaweesa, Annet, Musinguzi, Johnson, Vangala, Moksha, Shete, Priya B., Tucker, Austin, Ferguson, Olivia, Fielding, Katherine, Sohn, Hojoon, Dowdy, David, Moore, David A. J., Davis, J. Lucian, Ackerman, Sara L., Handley, Margaret A., Katamba, Achilles, Cattamanchi, Adithya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-00988-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32316993
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-00988-y

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