PLoS Medicine (Oct 2017)

Improving tuberculosis diagnosis: Better tests or better healthcare?

  • Sumona Datta,
  • Matthew J Saunders,
  • Marco A Tovar,
  • Carlton A Evans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002406
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 10
p. e1002406

Abstract

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In a Perspective accompanying Sylvia and colleagues, Carlton Evans and colleagues discuss the challenge of squaring policies around tuberculosis diagnosis with the realities of clinical practice in small villages and low-resource settings.