Detection of Myobacterium tuberculosis in nasopharyngeal aspirate samples in children

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9141, 1998, Pages 1681-1682

  Franchi, Luis Miguel ^b   Cama, Rosa I ^b   Gilman, Robert H ^a   Montenegro James, Sonia ^b   Sheen, Patricia ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NASOPHARYNX; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH SUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GASTRIC LAVAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NASOPHARYNX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; SUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0032556542     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61454-7     Document Type: Article

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