Development of a standardized screening rule for tuberculosis in people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings: individual participant data meta-analysis of observational studies.

<h4>Background</h4>The World Health Organization recommends the screening of all people living with HIV for tuberculosis (TB) disease, followed by TB treatment, or isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) when TB is excluded. However, the difficulty of reliably excluding TB disease has severel...

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Main Authors: Haileyesus Getahun, Wanitchaya Kittikraisak, Charles M Heilig, Elizabeth L Corbett, Helen Ayles, Kevin P Cain, Alison D Grant, Gavin J Churchyard, Michael Kimerling, Sarita Shah, Stephen D Lawn, Robin Wood, Gary Maartens, Reuben Granich, Anand A Date, Jay K Varma
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Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/1a36cecec5394d9fa5cadfa75e46b2b5
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