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Policy statement: automated real-time nucleic acid amplification technology for rapid and simultaneous detection of tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance: Xpert MTB/RIF system

World Health Organization.

Earlier and improved tuberculosis (TB) case detection - including smear-negative disease, often associated with HIV co-infection - as well as expanded capacity to diagnose multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are global priorities for TB control. Conventional laboratory methods are slow and cumberso...

Tuberculosis/diagnóstico, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/aislamiento & purificación, Infecciones por VIH/diagnóstico, Sensibilidad y Especificidad, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos, Rifampin/farmacología

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Rapid advice: treatment of tuberculosis in children

The World Health Organization (WHO) first published guidance for national tuberculosis control programmes on managing tuberculosis in children (hereafter called “the Guidance”) in 2006. The Guidance follows the principles of a public health approach aimed at optimizing outcomes, including the quality...