Jørstad MD

ORCID: 0000-0003-3516-5297 · 1 paper in corpus

diagnostic-accuracy 2018

MPT64 antigen detection test improves routine diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a low-resource setting: A study from the tertiary care hospital in Zanzibar

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196723

BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a diagnostic challenge. An immunochemistry-based MPT64 antigen detection test (MPT64 test) has reported higher sensitivity in the diagnosis of EPTB compared with conventional methods. The ob…