Use of Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to Ascertain Levels of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in Western Kenya.

OBJECTIVE:To classify the prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in two different geographic settings in western Kenya using the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) methodology. DESIGN:The prevalence of drug resistance was classified among treatment-naïve smear positive TB patien...

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Main Authors: Julia Jezmir, Ted Cohen, Matteo Zignol, Edwin Nyakan, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier, Adrian Gardner, Lydia Kamle, Wilfred Injera, E Jane Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4864281?pdf=render