Blinded rechecking of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli to ensure the quality and usefulness of restaining smears to assess false-positive errors

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1077-1082

  Selvakumar, N ^a   Prabhakaran, E ^b   Rahman, F ^a   Chandu, N A ^a   Srinivasan, S ^b   Santha, T ^a   Chauhan, L S ^c   Narayanan, P R ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Tuberculosis Unit   (India)

^c GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Acid fast bacilli; Microscopy; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Quality assurance; Sputum smears

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPUTUM SMEAR; STAINING;

COLORING AGENTS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; QUALITY CONTROL; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0242667888     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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