The Diagnostic Performance of Chest-X-Ray and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Comparison with GeneXpert(®) for Tuberculosis Case Notification Among Patients Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study

INTRODUCTION: For many years, chest-X-ray (CXR) has been used as a diagnostic tool to complement clinical diagnosis of bacteriologically negative tuberculosis (TB) cases. Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was also used as laboratory surrogates to augment the diagnosis of bacteriological...

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Autor principal: Sorsa, Abebe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2020
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33061697
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S264447

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7518781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33061697
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S264447

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