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How can gastro-intestinal tuberculosis diagnosis be improved? A prospective cohort study

2020-02-18

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Gastrointestinal tuberculosis (TB) is diagnostically challenging; therefore, many cases are treated presumptively. We aimed to describe features and outcomes of gastrointestinal TB, determine whether a clinical algorithm could distinguish TB from non-TB diagnoses, and calculate accuracy of diagnostic tests. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study of hospitalized patie...

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Literature Corpus work: 66c1a6db-0648-5fe3-b86e-fbb73f017496
DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.17304/v2

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