Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study results reported from Institute of Tropical Medicine
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 27th, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report "Validation of candidate smear microscopy quality indicators, extracted from tuberculosis laboratory registers. Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. To identify and validate register-based indicators of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) microscopy quality," scientists writing in the The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease report.
"Selection of laboratories based on reliability and variation in routine smear rechecking results. Calculation of relative sensitivity (RS) compared to recheckers and its correlation coefficient (R) with candidate indicators based on a fully probabilistic analysis...
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