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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...
Autores principales: | Pooran, Anil, Randall, Philippa, Meldau, Richard, Maine, Rebeng, Esmail, Aliasgar |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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AME Publishing Company
2022
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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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