| dc.contributor |
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris, France; Homa Bay District Hospital, Kenya. |
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| dc.creator |
Martin, A |
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| dc.creator |
Munga Waweru, P |
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| dc.creator |
Babu Okatch, F |
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| dc.creator |
Amondi Ouma, N |
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| dc.creator |
Bonte, L |
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| dc.creator |
Varaine, F |
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| dc.creator |
Portaels, F |
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| dc.date |
2009-06-03 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:14:47Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:14:47Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Implementation of the thin layer agar for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence setting in Homa Bay, Kenya. 2009: J. Clin. Microbiol. |
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| dc.identifier |
1098-660X |
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| dc.identifier |
19494065 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.1128/JCM.00264-09 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10144/75177 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/75177 |
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| dc.identifier |
Journal of Clinical Microbiology |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10144/75177 |
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| dc.description |
The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of a low-cost method, the Thin Layer Agar (TLA), for the diagnosis of smear-negative patients. This prospective study was performed in Homa Bay district Hospital in Kenya. Out of 1584 smear-negative sputum samples, 212 were positive by Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) (13.5%) and 220 positive by TLA (14%). The sensitivity of LJ and TLA was 71% and 74 % respectively. TLA could become an affordable method for the diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis in resource-limited settings with results available within 2 weeks. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.rights |
Published by the American Society for Microbiology -
Archived on this site with kind permission from the American Society for Microbiology |
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| dc.title |
Implementation of the thin layer agar for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence setting in Homa Bay, Kenya. |
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