Sensitivity and specificity of the mean corpuscular volume and CD4/CD8 ratio in discriminating between rifampicin resistant and rifampicin sensitive tuberculosis

Background: There is need for simple, cost effective and widely available point of care tests for low level health facilities in developing countries to screen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) after bacteriological confirmation of TB by smear microscopy. We evaluated the sensitivity and specific...

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Main Authors: Joseph Baruch Baluku, Joseph Musaazi, Rose Mulwana, Derrick Bengo, Christine Sekaggya Wiltshire, Irene Andia-Biraro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Subjects:
CD4
CD8
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579420300693