Spot sputum samples are at least as good as early morning samples for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: The use of early morning sputum samples (EMS) to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) can result in treatment delay given the need for the patient to return to the clinic with the EMS, increasing the chance of patients being lost during their diagnostic workup. However, there is little evidence to...

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Publicado en:BMC Med
Main Authors: Murphy, Michael E., Phillips, Patrick P. J., Mendel, Carl M., Bongard, Emily, Bateson, Anna L. C., Hunt, Robert, Murthy, Saraswathi, Singh, Kasha P., Brown, Michael, Crook, Angela M., Nunn, Andrew J., Meredith, Sarah K., Lipman, Marc, McHugh, Timothy D., Gillespie, Stephen H.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658986/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29073910
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0947-9
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