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Intensified specimen collection to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in children from Rural South Africa, an observational study.

TitleIntensified specimen collection to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in children from Rural South Africa, an observational study.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsThomas, Tania A., Scott K. Heysell, Prashini Moodley, Romualde Montreuil, Xia Ha, Gerald Friedland, Sheila A. Bamber, Anthony P. Moll, Neel Gandhi, William E. Brant, Willem Sturm, and Sarita Shah
JournalBMC infectious diseases
Volume14
Issue1
Pagination11
Date Published2014 Jan 9
ISSN1471-2334
AbstractIn drug-resistant TB settings, specimen collection is critical for drug-susceptibility testing (DST). This observational study included multiple specimen types collected from pediatric TB suspects with the aim to determine diagnostic yield and inform clinical practice in children with drug-resistant and drug-susceptible TB.
DOI10.1310/hct1405-235
Alternate JournalBMC Infect. Dis.

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