DOCU-CLIM: A GLOBAL DOCUMENTARY CLIMATE DATASET FOR CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS




Commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: The global tuberculosis epidemic results in nearly 2 million deaths and 9 million new cases of the disease a year.The vast majority of tuberculosis patients live in developing countries, where the diagnosis of tuberculosis relies on the identification of acid-fast bacilli on unprocessed sputum smears using conventional light microscopy.

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