Journal article
Spot sputum samples are at least as good as early morning samples for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Background
The use of early morning sputum samples (EMS) to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) can result in treatment delay given the need for the patient to return to the clinic with the EMS, increasing the chance of patients being lost during their diagnostic workup. However, there is little evidence to support the superiority of EMS over spot sputum samples. In this new analysis of the REMoxTB study, we compare the diagnostic accuracy of EMS with spot samples for identifying Mycobact...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12916-017-0947-9
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Funding
+ European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership
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Grant IP.2007.32011.011
United States Agency for International Development
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 192
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-25
- DOI:
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1741-7015
- Pmid:
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29073910
- Source identifiers:
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831731
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- English
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pubs:831731
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uuid:ed474a4c-18cd-45d7-8519-dc52ec85044f
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- pubs:831731
- Deposit date:
- 2018-03-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Bongard et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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© The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
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