Liquid vs solid culture medium to evaluate proportion and time to change in management of suspects of tuberculosis - A pragmatic randomized trial in secondary and tertiary health care units in Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Moreira, Adriana Da Silva Rezende ^a   Huf, Gisele ^a   Vieira, Maria Armanda Monteiro Da Silva ^a   Da Costa, Paulo Albuquerque ^a,b   Aguiar, Fábio ^a   Marsico, Anna Grazia ^a   Fonseca, Leila De Souza ^a   Ricks, Mônica ^b   Oliveira, Martha Maria ^a   Detjen, Anne ^c   Fujiwara, Paula Isono ^c   Squire, Stephen Bertel ^d   Kritski, Afranio Lineu ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Guadalupe SMS   (Brazil)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LIQUID CULTURE MEDIUM; LOWENSTEIN JENSEN METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MGIT960 TECHNIQUE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SMEAR; SOLID CULTURE MEDIUM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME TO CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT; TUBERCULOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

DIAGNOSTIC KIT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SECONDARY CARE; TERTIARY HEALTHCARE; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934972863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127588     Document Type: Article

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