Impact and cost of algorithms for the diagnosis of adults with pulmonary tuberculosis in South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 436-

  Schnippel, Kathryn ^a   Long, Lawrence ^a   Meyer Rath, Gesine ^a,b   Sanne, Ian ^a,b   Rosen, Sydney ^a,b   Stevens, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COST; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE;

ALGORITHMS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84879468092     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.7156     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

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3. Meyer-Rath G, Schnippel K, Long L, et al. The impact and cost of scaling up GeneXpert MTB/RIF in South Africa. PLoS ONE 2012;7(5):e36966. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036966.
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