Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting – modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges

BACKGROUND: Detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children in Kenya is sub-optimal. Xpert MTB/RIF® assay (Xpert®) has the potential to improve speed of TB diagnosis due to its sensitivity and fast turnaround for results. Significant effort and resources have been put into making the machines widely avai...

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Autores principales: Oliwa, Jacquie Narotso, Odero, Sabina Adhiambo, Nzinga, Jacinta, van Hensbroek, Michaël Boele, Jones, Caroline, English, Mike, van’t Hoog, Anja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7395417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32738917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05588-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7395417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32738917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05588-6

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