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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Autori principali: 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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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2017
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Accesso online: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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