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Prospective evaluation of GeneXpert for the diagnosis of HIV- negative pediatric TB cases
- Source :
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Background The GeneXpertMTB/RIF (Xpert) assay is now recommended by WHO for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children but evaluation data is limited. Methods One hundred and fifty consecutive HIV negative children (
- Subjects :
- DNA, Bacterial
Male
Smear
medicine.medical_specialty
Tuberculosis
Adolescent
HIV Infections
Sensitivity and Specificity
MGIT culture
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis diagnosis
Internal medicine
Diagnosis
Humans
Medicine
Prospective Studies
Xpert
Child
Prospective cohort study
Pediatric
GeneXpert MTB/RIF
biology
business.industry
Sputum
Infant
Genexpert
Gold standard (test)
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Childhood
3. Good health
Surgery
Clinical trial
Infectious Diseases
Vietnam
Child, Preschool
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Algorithms
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14712334
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5473d6d82f84620f69991137182d3040
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0814-2