GeneXpert--a game-changer for tuberculosis control?
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 21814497.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001064 and PMC identifier 3144196.
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Abstract
Carlton Evans considers whether the new tuberculosis diagnostic test, GeneXpert, is the solution for TB control that it's said to be.
Medical subject headings
- Diagnostic Tests, Routine
- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary