Field evaluation of a blood based test for active tuberculosis in endemic settings.

Field evaluation of a blood based test for active tuberculosis in endemic settings.

Over 9 million new active tuberculosis (TB) cases emerge each year from an enormous pool of 2 billion individuals latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb.) worldwide. About 3 million new TB cases per year are unaccounted for, and 1.5 million die. TB, however, is generally curable if...

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Main Authors: Aasia Khaliq, Resmi Ravindran, Syed Fahadulla Hussainy, Viwanathan V Krishnan, Atiqa Ambreen, Noshin Wasim Yusuf, Shagufta Irum, Abdul Rashid, Muhammad Jamil, Fareed Zaffar, Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry, Puneet K Gupta, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Imran H Khan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5381859?pdf=render

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