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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...
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 |
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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/PMC7406076/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32756559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236057 |
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