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Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF for diagnosis of pediatric TB—Does it work? Experience from India

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of TB in pediatric population poses several challenges. A novel initiative was implemented in several major cities of India aimed at providing upfront access to free-of-cost Xpert MTB/RIF to presumptive pediatric TB cases. This paper aims to describe the experience of implement...

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Autores principales: Kalra, Aakshi, Parija, Debadutta, Raizada, Neeraj, Sachdeva, K. S., Rao, Raghuram, Swaminathan, Soumya, Khanna, Ashwani, Chopra, Kamal Kishore, Hanif, M., Singh, Varinder, Umadevi, K. R., Sheladia, K. N., Rao, Rama, Vasundhara, N., S., Anil, A. R., Nirmala, Azeem, Abdul, Chhajlani, Vijay, Khurana, Jyoti, Das, N. J., Choudhury, Bandana, Nair, Sreenivas Achuthan, Mall, Shalini, Sen, Rajashree, Chadha, Sarabjit Singh, Denkinger, Claudia M., Boehme, Catharina, Sarin, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32756559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236057