Estimating the effect of a rifampicin resistant tuberculosis diagnosis by the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on two-year mortality

• Main Authors: Elise De Vos (Author), Daniel Westreich (Author), Lesley Scott (Author), Yara Voss de Lima (Author), Wendy Stevens (Author), Cindy Hayes (Author), Pedro da Silva (Author), Annelies Van Rie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Studies assessing patient-centred outcomes of novel rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) diagnostics are rare and mostly apply conventional methods which may not adequately address biases. Even though the Xpert MTB/RIF molecular assay was endorsed a decade ago for simultaneous diagnosis of tube...