The impact of chest radiography and Xpert MTB/RIF testing among household contacts in Chennai, India

Tuberculosis prevalence surveys have demonstrated the benefit of screening with chest x-ray (CXR) and sensitive diagnostic tests compared to symptoms and smear microscopy. However, in programmatic practice there is little evidence on the yield of different algorithms. We implemented contact tracing...

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Autores principales: Ananthakrishnan, Ramya, Thiagesan, Rajeswaran, Auguesteen, Sheela, Karunakaran, Nalini, Jayabal, Lavanya, M, Jagadeesan, Stevens, Robert, Codlin, Andrew, Creswell, Jacob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33147240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241203

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33147240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241203

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