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Total Quality Management of GeneXpert-Based Tuberculosis Testing in Hospitals in Greater Accra, Ghana

2026-05-25

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Achieving early tuberculosis diagnosis with universal drug-susceptibility testing requires a quality-assured laboratory network equipped with rapid diagnostics. The GeneXpert molecular platform was adopted in Ghana as the first-line diagnostic test for tuberculosis in 2017 with approximately 20% coverage, increasing to about 58% of notified cases by 2018 across 126 testing s...

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Literature Corpus work: 07074829-847f-52ba-9231-79bb2a4b1fc0
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9585638/v1

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