Field and laboratory preparedness: Challenges to rolling out new multidrugresistant tuberculosis diagnostics

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 120-127

  Griffin, Anne M J ^a,b   Caviedes, Luz ^c   Gilman, Robert ^c,d,e   Coronel, Jorge ^c   Delgado, Freddy ^f   Quispe, MaryLuz ^f   Moore, David A J ^c,d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

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

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Hospital Regional Honorio Delgado Espinoza   (Peru)

Author keywords

Clinical laboratory techniques; Health plan implementation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Peru; Tuberculosis, multidrug resistant

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY METHOD; MEDICINE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

HARNESS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; LABORATORY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

LABORATORIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 70350314976     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892009000800004     Document Type: Article

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