A Systematic Review of Reported Cost for Smear and Culture Tests during Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lu, Chunling ^a,b   Liu, Qing ^c   Sarma, Aartik ^b   Fitzpatrick, Christopher ^d   Falzon, Dennis ^d   Mitnick, Carole D ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84874080656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056074     Document Type: Article

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