Economic evaluation of microbiological and host biomarker-based tests for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis in a high burden setting

BACKGROUND: Pleural tuberculosis (TB) remains difficult to diagnose. Tests measuring host biomarkers, such as adenosine deaminase (ADA) and unstimulated interferon-gamma, perform better than conventional microbiological tests for TB diagnosis using pleural fluid. However, there is no data on the cos...

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Autores principales: Pooran, Anil, Randall, Philippa, Meldau, Richard, Maine, Rebeng, Esmail, Aliasgar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AME Publishing Company 2022
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9562520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36245620
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-106

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9562520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36245620
http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-106

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