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Tuberculosis Infection Control: Potential Benefit of a New Rapid Tuberculosis Test in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS Reference Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos ,
Anete Trajman ,
Frank Cobelens ,
Betina Durovni ,
Maurício Gonçalves ,
Samira Bührer-Sékula  and
Valeria Saraceni
Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos*
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Tropical Medicine Postgraduate Programme, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil
Anete Trajman
Affiliation:
Internal Medicine Postgraduate Programme, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Frank Cobelens
Affiliation:
Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Betina Durovni
Affiliation:
Internal Medicine Postgraduate Programme, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maurício Gonçalves
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Tropical Medicine Postgraduate Programme, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Brazil
Samira Bührer-Sékula
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Valeria Saraceni
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
*
Avenida Pedro Teixeira, 25, CEP: 69040-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazila (marcelocordeiro.br@gmail.com).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 9 , 01 September 2014 , pp. 1206 - 1207
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