Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study
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- 19 April 2011
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- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 377 (9776) , 1495-1505
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60438-8
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