Accelerating access to quality TB care for pediatric TB cases through better diagnostic strategy in four major cities of India.

Diagnosis of TB in children is challenging, and is largely based on positive history of contact with a TB case, clinical and radiological findings, often without microbiological confirmation. Diagnostic efforts are also undermined by challenges in specimen collection and the limited availability of...

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Main Authors: Neeraj Raizada, Sunil D Khaparde, Virender Singh Salhotra, Raghuram Rao, Aakshi Kalra, Soumya Swaminathan, Ashwani Khanna, Kamal Kishore Chopra, M Hanif, Varinder Singh, K R Umadevi, Sreenivas Achuthan Nair, Sophie Huddart, C H Surya Prakash, Shalini Mall, Pooja Singh, B K Saha, Claudia M Denkinger, Catharina Boehme, Sanjay Sarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5830996?pdf=render