The Potential for Testing Stool to Reduce Tuberculosis Missed Diagnoses and Misdiagnoses

Datta, Sumona; Evans, Carlton Anthony William; Gonzales-Huerta, Luis E.

dc.contributor.author	Datta, Sumona
dc.contributor.author	Gonzales-Huerta, Luis E.
dc.contributor.author	Evans, Carlton Anthony William
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-03T17:02:45Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-03T17:02:45Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4278
dc.description.abstract	Tuberculosis kills more people than any other infection, mainly in resource-constrained settings where diagnosing tuberculosis and detecting drug resistance are particularly challenging. All tuberculosis tests frequently have false-negative results, causing some patients to miss out on the tuberculosis treatment they need, patients with suspected tuberculosis to require multiple tests before diagnosis, delayed diagnosis, and a significant minority of patients to start treatment of tuberculosis empirically, without bacteriological confirmation of diagnosis or assessment of drug susceptibility. Inevitably, some of the patients receiving empirical tuberculosis therapy do so inappropriately, unnecessarily experiencing stigma, costs, and toxicity, and sometimes causing them to miss out on potentially life-saving therapy for their actual disease process...	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.relation.ispartofseries	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH Journal)
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Testing Stool	en_US
dc.subject	Tuberculosis	en_US
dc.subject	Diagnoses	en_US
dc.subject	Misdiagnoses	en_US
dc.title	The Potential for Testing Stool to Reduce Tuberculosis Missed Diagnoses and Misdiagnoses	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0507
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06
dc.relation.issn	1476-1645