Thesis
Getting the diagnosis right: approaches to new diagnostics for childhood tuberculosis
- Abstract:
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause for morbidity and mortality in children, and the very young and immunocompromised are especially at high risk. A major hurdle is a timely diagnosis, as microbiological confirmation – regarded as the reference standard – remains uncommon and the available tools are neither child-friendly, user-friendly, nor sufficiently accurate.
This thesis presents results from a large TB diagnostic cohort of children younger than 15 years recruited in fiv...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Song, R
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ Pollard, A
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- MSD
- Department:
- Paediatrics
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-7361-719X
+ Heinrich, N
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ McHugh, T
- Role:
- Supervisor
+ European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
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- Grant:
- RIA2016MC-1623
- DOI:
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- Pubs id:
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2360174
- Local pid:
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pubs:2360174
- Deposit date:
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2022-09-20
- ARK identifier:
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- Copyright holder:
- Olbrich, L
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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