Cytokine Kinetics in the First Week of Tuberculosis Therapy as a Tool to Confirm a Clinical Diagnosis and Guide Therapy.

Cytokine Kinetics in the First Week of Tuberculosis Therapy as a Tool to Confirm a Clinical Diagnosis and Guide Therapy.

Many patients treated for tuberculosis (TB) in low and middle income countries are treated based on clinical suspicion without bacteriological confirmation. This is often due to lack of rapid simple accurate diagnostics and low healthcare provider confidence in the predictive value of current tests....

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Main Authors: Alice L den Hertog, María Montero-Martín, Rachel L Saunders, Matthew Blakiston, Sandra Menting, Jeevan B Sherchand, Lovett Lawson, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Saddiq T Abdurrahman, Luis E Cuevas, Richard M Anthony
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4482639?pdf=render

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