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Utility of broad-spectrum antibiotics for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Suboptimal diagnostics for pulmonary tuberculosis drive the use of the so-called trial of antibiotics, a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics without activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is given to patients who are mycobacteriology negative but symptomatic, with the aim of d...
Autores principales: | Divala, Titus H, Fielding, Katherine L, Kandulu, Chikondi, Nliwasa, Marriott, Sloan, Derek J, Gupta-Wright, Ankur, Corbett, Elizabeth L |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456780/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32437700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30143-2 |
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