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A comparative study of Conventional methods and GeneXpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rifampicin (MTB/RIF) assay for diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis

2019-10-08

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Diagnosis of<italic> childhood </italic>TB (tuberculosis) is challenging because its symptoms resemble other diseases, very few (less than five) mycobacteria are capable of causing the disease and<italic> children </italic>do not or rarely expectorate. These peculiar attributes make<italic> childhood </italic>TB different from adult TB but it is still not being dealt differen...

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10.21203/rs.2.15774/v1
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