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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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| 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 |