Use of GeneXpert and the role of an expert panel in improving clinical diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis cases.
SETTING:A high proportion of notified tuberculosis cases in the Philippines are clinically diagnosed (63%) as opposed to bacteriologically confirmed. Better understanding of this phenomenon is required to improve tuberculosis control. OBJECTIVES:To determine the percentage of smear negative presumpt...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227093 |