Molecular bacterial load assay versus culture for monitoring treatment response in adults with tuberculosis
The lack of rapid, sensitive, and deployable tuberculosis diagnostic tools is hampering the early diagnosis of tuberculosis and early detection of treatment failures. The conventional sputum smear microscopy or Xpert MTB/RIF assay cannot distinguish between alive and dead bacilli and the culture met...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-07-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121211033470 |