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New diagnostic test changes tuberculosis landscape.

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A new diagnostic test for tuberculosis - including its most common resistant form - is being rolled out at record pace, with South Africa its biggest implementer. The challenge now is to treat the new cases. Claire Keeton reports.

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Year:  2013        PMID： 23476087      PMCID： PMC3590626          DOI： 10.2471/BLT.13.020313

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Bull World Health Organ        ISSN： 0042-9686            Impact factor:   9.408


  4 in total

1.  Implementation and Operational Research: What Happens After a Negative Test for Tuberculosis? Evaluating Adherence to TB Diagnostic Algorithms in South African Primary Health Clinics.

Authors:  K M McCarthy; A D Grant; V Chihota; S Ginindza; L Mvusi; G J Churchyard; K L Fielding
Journal:  J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr       Date:  2016-04-15       Impact factor: 3.731

2.  The Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of a Four-Month Regimen for First-Line Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in South Africa.

Authors:  Gwenan M Knight; Gabriela B Gomez; Peter J Dodd; David Dowdy; Alice Zwerling; William A Wells; Frank Cobelens; Anna Vassall; Richard G White
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2015-12-30       Impact factor: 3.240

3.  Cost-effectiveness of Xpert MTB/RIF for tuberculosis diagnosis in South Africa: a real-world cost analysis and economic evaluation.

Authors:  Anna Vassall; Mariana Siapka; Nicola Foster; Lucy Cunnama; Lebogang Ramma; Katherine Fielding; Kerrigan McCarthy; Gavin Churchyard; Alison Grant; Edina Sinanovic
Journal:  Lancet Glob Health       Date:  2017-07       Impact factor: 26.763

Review 4.  Whole-genome sequencing to control antimicrobial resistance.

Authors:  Claudio U Köser; Matthew J Ellington; Sharon J Peacock
Journal:  Trends Genet       Date:  2014-08-03       Impact factor: 11.639
  4 in total

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