Population-Level Impact of Same-Day Microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Africa

OBJECTIVE: To compare the population-level impact of two World Health Organization-endorsed strategies for improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB): same-day microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF (Cepheid, USA). METHODS: We created a compartmental transmission model of TB in a representative African comm...

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Main Authors: Dowdy, David W., Davis, J. Lucian, den Boon, Saskia, Walter, Nicholas D., Katamba, Achilles, Cattamanchi, Adithya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3741313/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23950942
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070485
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