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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...
Autores principales: | Ananthakrishnan, Ramya, Thiagesan, Rajeswaran, Auguesteen, Sheela, Karunakaran, Nalini, Jayabal, Lavanya, M, Jagadeesan, Stevens, Robert, Codlin, Andrew, Creswell, Jacob |
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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/PMC7641361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33147240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241203 |
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