Implementation of LED Fluorescence Microscopy for Diagnosis of Pulmonary and HIV-Associated Tuberculosis in a Hospital Setting in Indonesia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Chaidir, Lidya ^a   Parwati, Ida ^a   Annisa, Jessi ^a   Muhsinin, Soni ^a   Meilana, Intan ^a   Alisjahbana, Bachti ^a   van Crevel, Reinout ^b  

^a Hasan Sadikin Hospital   (Indonesia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURAMINE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDONESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM SMEAR; STAINING; ZIEHL NEELSEN STAINING;

ADULT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; ROC CURVE; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 84876449200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061727     Document Type: Article

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