It takes more than a sensitive test to find more tuberculosis cases

Affiliations

¹ Social Medicine Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: atrajman@gmail.com.
² Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands.

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Anete Trajman et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Apr.

. 2017 Apr;17(4):357-358.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30458-3. Epub 2017 Jan 5.

¹ Social Medicine Institute, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: atrajman@gmail.com.
² Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands.

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Effect of new tuberculosis diagnostic technologies on community-based intensified case finding: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.
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