Abstract
We compared the effectiveness of the new WHO 2007 diagnostic algorithm for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) for HIV prevalent settings (WHO07) to the WHO 2003 guidelines used by the Ugandan National Tuberculosis Program (UgWHO03) and most other countries for the diagnosis of smear-negative PTB.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | e93-100 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes : JAIDS. |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Cohort Studies
- HIV Infections
- Humans
- Prevalence
- Reproducibility of Results
- Rural Population
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Sputum
- Time Factors
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
- Uganda
- Urban Population
- World Health Organization
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