Piloting Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing on Various Specimens under Programmatic Conditions for Diagnosis of TB & DR-TB in Paediatric Population.

India accounts for one-fifth of the global TB incidence. While the exact burden of childhood TB is not known, TB remains one of the leading causes of childhood mortality in India. Bacteriological confirmation of TB in children is challenging due to difficulty in obtaining quality specimens, in the a...

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Main Authors: Neeraj Raizada, Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, Soumya Swaminathan, Shubhangi Kulsange, Sunil D Khaparde, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Ashwani Khanna, Kamal Kishore Chopra, Mahmud Hanif, Gulshan Rai Sethi, K R Umadevi, G Keshav Chander, Brojakishore Saha, Amar Shah, Malik Parmar, Mayank Ghediya, Jyoti Jaju, Catharina Boehme, Chinnambedu Nainarappan Paramasivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4607299?pdf=render