Abstract:Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the primary threatening of human health and its diagnosis remains unsatisfactory in clinic. Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) showed higher sensitivity than culture for the diagnosis of pulmonary TB (PTB). However, NAAT are expensive and not easily deployable at the peripheral level. To improve the sensitivity of NAAT for the PTB diagnosis, the predictive factors that might be utilized to give the optimized choice of NAAT were investigated.Methods: A total of … Show more
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