Correction: Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review
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1417 August 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 8 | e254 Correction: Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review Karen R. Steingart, Megan Henry, Suman Laal, Philip C. Hopewell, Andrew Ramsay, Dick Menzies, Jane Cunningham, Karin Weldingh, Madhukar Pai Correction for: Steingart KR, Henry M, Laal S, Hopewell PC, Ramsay A, et al. (2007) Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review. PLoS Med 4(6): e202. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040202 Figure 1 contained an error. Of the 515 articles selected for full-text review, in the box entitled “Excluded,” the number for “Relevance to topic” should read 34, not 340. The revised fi gure appears below:
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A systematic review of commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
Conventional diagnostic tests for tuberculosis have several limitations and are often unhelpful in establishing the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Although commercial serological antibody based tests are available, their usefulness in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is unknown. A systematic review was conducted to assess the accuracy of commercial serological antibody de...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- PLoS Medicine
دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2007