Validation of a clinical-radiographic score to assess the probability of pulmonary tuberculosis in suspect patients with negative sputum smears

A Soto; L Solari; J Díaz; A Mantilla; F Matthys; P Van der Stuyft

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018486

Validation of a clinical-radiographic score to assess the probability of pulmonary tuberculosis in suspect patients with negative sputum smears

A Soto, L Solari, J Díaz, A Mantilla, F Matthys, P Van der Stuyft

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Original language	English
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	6
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	e18486
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018486
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

B780-tropical-medicine
Bacterial diseases
Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Prevalence
Diagnosis
Acid-fast bacilli
Sputum smear
Smear-negative
Assessment
Probability
Validation
Radiography
Decision-tree
Decision making
Scoring system
Peru
America-Latin

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