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

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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.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
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


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