In reply: A human rights-based approach to tuberculosis diagnosis

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
² National Tuberculosis Control Programme and National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³ Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Cotonou, Benin.
⁴ Damien Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ National Tuberculosis Control Programme and National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Kampala, Uganda.
⁶ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁷ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Tuberculosis Consultant Services, Kirchlindach, Switzerland, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, <email></email>, Email: avandeun@theunion.org.

Comment

Armand Van Deun et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 1;23(8):959-960.

doi: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0133.

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
² National Tuberculosis Control Programme and National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³ Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Cotonou, Benin.
⁴ Damien Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ National Tuberculosis Control Programme and National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Kampala, Uganda.
⁶ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.
⁷ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Tuberculosis Consultant Services, Kirchlindach, Switzerland, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, <email></email>, Email: avandeun@theunion.org.

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Sputum smear microscopy in the Xpert^® MTB/RIF era.
Van Deun A, Tahseen S, Affolabi D, Hossain MA, Joloba ML, Angra PK, Ridderhof JC, de Jong BC, Rieder HL. Van Deun A, et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019 Jan 1;23(1):12-18. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0553. Epub 2018 Dec 19. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019. PMID: 30567624
A human rights-based approach to tuberculosis diagnosis.
Furin J, Frick M, McKenna L. Furin J, et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019 Aug 1;23(8):959. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0023. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2019. PMID: 31533888 No abstract available.