Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis

Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis

Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), especially multidrug-resistant (MDR, resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid) disease, is associated with a worse patient outcome. Drug resistance diagnosed using microbiological culture takes days to weeks, as TB bacteria grow slowly. Rapid molecular tes...

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Main Authors: Francis Drobniewski, Mary Cooke, Jake Jordan, Nicola Casali, Tendai Mugwagwa, Agnieszka Broda, Catherine Townsend, Anand Sivaramakrishnan, Nathan Green, Mark Jit, Marc Lipman, Joanne Lord, Peter J White, Ibrahim Abubakar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2015-05-01
Series:Health Technology Assessment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/hta19340

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