"Proof-Of-Concept" Evaluation of an Automated Sputum Smear Microscopy System for Tuberculosis Diagnosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lewis, James J ^a,b   Chihota, Violet N ^b   van der Meulen, Minty ^b   Fourie, P Bernard ^c   Fielding, Katherine L ^a   Grant, Alison D ^a   Dorman, Susan E ^d   Churchyard, Gavin J ^a,b,e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b AURUM INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84870523873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050173     Document Type: Article

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