Public health relevance of non-tuberculous mycobacteria among AFB positive sputa

BACKGROUND: Sputum smear microscopy for acid fast bacilli (AFB) is used by most public health programmes to detect tuberculosis. While most AFB in countries endemic for tuberculosis are Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), some may also be non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). The inability to differenti...

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Autori principali: Desikan, Prabha, Tiwari, Karuna, Panwalkar, Nikita, Khaliq, Saima, Chourey, Manju, Varathe, Reeta, Mirza, Shaina Beg, Sharma, Arun, Anand, Sridhar, Pandey, Manoj
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Asociația pentru Creşterea Vizibilității Cercetării Ştiințifice (ACVCS) 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348212/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28331837
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.18683/germs.2017.1103
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