Appropriate technology in tuberculosis diagnostics

Appropriate technology in tuberculosis diagnostics.

First, the statement that the use of the string test “will be hampered by the need for sputum induction” seems to be a misunderstanding: sputum induction added nothing to the results of the string test and was used only as a comparative test for this research. In fact, our findings clearly show that the string test alone offers better diagnostic sensitivity than sputum induction. By obviating t...

Rapid diagnostics and appropriate antibiotic use.

Most antibiotics are prescribed by physicians lacking postgraduate training in infectious diseases. As such, prescribing physicians have varying levels of interest and sophistication in thinking about how to use molecular and microbiological data to inform therapeutic choices. Strategies designed to modify physician antimicrobial-prescribing practices must therefore choose simplicity over compl...

Is GIS appropriate technology

Department of geography, Pennsylvania State University. University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. USA Abstract. Appropriate technology(AT) has become an integral part if the programmes for decentralized regional development in the third world appropriate techniques are usually low in capital coststhey can be maintained without a high level of expertise, and they do not involve patents, expensive cop...

New Diagnostics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Appropriate Technology for Health Care

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