Evaluation of the 2007 WHO guideline to diagnose smear negative tuberculosis in an urban hospital in Ethiopia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Abebe, Gemeda ^a,d   Deribew, Amare ^b   Apers, Ludwig ^c   Abdissa, Alemseged ^a   Kiflie, Yibeltal ^a   Koole, Olivier ^c   Colebunders, Robert ^c,d  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; HIV; Smear negative; Tuberculosis; WHO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ETHIOPIA; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84883636271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-427     Document Type: Article

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