Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Current status and future prospects

S. Dorman

doi:10.5588/ijtld.15.0048

Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Current status and future prospects

S. Dorman

School of Medicine

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Abstract

Lack of diagnosis and diagnostic capacity remain barriers to tuberculosis (TB) control. This review describes recent advances in TB diagnostics, the current TB diagnostic landscape, and some of the key challenges in the quest for accurate, simple diagnostic tests that have meaningful impact on the health of individual patients and on TB epidemiology.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	504-516
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Volume	19
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.15.0048
State	Published - May 1 2015

Keywords

Diagnostics
Review
Tuberculosis

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General Medicine

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