Rapid diagnostic algorithms as a screening tool for tuberculosis: an assessor blinded cross-sectional study.

A major obstacle to effectively treat and control tuberculosis is the absence of an accurate, rapid, and low-cost diagnostic tool. A new approach for the screening of patients for tuberculosis is the use of rapid diagnostic classification algorithms.We tested a previously published diagnostic algori...

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Main Authors: Franz Ratzinger, Harald Bruckschwaiger, Martin Wischenbart, Bernhard Parschalk, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes, Heimo Lagler, Alexandra Indra, Wolfgang Graninger, Stefan Winkler, Sanjeev Krishna, Michael Ramharter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3504150?pdf=render