The influence of the number of specimens submitted in the diagnosis of tuberculosis;Influencia del número de muestras estudiadas en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 215-218

  Dorronsoro, Inés ^a   Martín, Carmen ^a   Cabodevilla, Beatriz ^a   Ojer, Montse ^a   Ruz, Ana ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Number of specimens; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0346486001     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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