How has the Zimbabwe mycobacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing system among re-treatment tuberculosis patients functioned during the scale-up of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay?

BACKGROUND: In Zimbabwe, while the Xpert MTB/RIF assay is being used for diagnosing tuberculosis and rifampicin-resistance, re-treatment tuberculosis (TB) patients are still expected to have culture and drug sensitivity testing (CDST) performed at national reference laboratories for confirmation. Th...

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Publicado en:Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
Main Authors: Timire, Collins, Takarinda, Kudakwashe C, Harries, Anthony D, Mutunzi, Herbert, Manyame-Murwira, Barbara, Kumar, Ajay M V, Sandy, Charles
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044330/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992299
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/try054
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