Development, testing and introduction of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Henry Stewart Talks
2014, 2014
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| Series: | Tuberculosis
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| Collection: | Henry Stewart Talks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Tuberculosis: current diagnostics tests
- Microscopy diagnosis in endemic countries
- The important distinction between smear negative and smear positive patients
- Introduction of DOTS
- Limitations of DOTS
- TB notification in Zambia
- HIV and TB
- Drug resistant TB
- TB is a poverty associated disease
- The role of FIND in developing new diagnostic tests for TB
- Changes in TB testing from 2004 to 2010
- Novel testing methods for TB
- The role of WHO endorsements for new tests
- The Xpert assay
- Identification of biomarkers for TB.