Erschienen:
American Society for Microbiology, 2022
Erschienen in:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1128/jcm.01859-21
ISSN:
0095-1137;
1098-660X
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Current WHO recommendations for monitoring treatment response in adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are sputum smear microscopy and/or culture conversion at the end of the intensive phase of treatment. These methods either have suboptimal accuracy or a long turnaround time.</jats:p>