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Comparison of laboratory costs of rapid molecular tests and conventional diagnostics for detection of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, July 2013
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Title
Comparison of laboratory costs of rapid molecular tests and conventional diagnostics for detection of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, July 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-13-352
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Authors

Maunank Shah, Violet Chihota, Gerrit Coetzee, Gavin Churchyard, Susan E Dorman

Abstract

The World Health Organization has endorsed the use of molecular methods for the detection of TB and drug-resistant TB as a rapid alternative to culture-based systems. In South Africa, the Xpert MTB/Rif assay and the GenoType MTBDRplus have been implemented into reference laboratories for diagnosis of TB and drug-resistance, but their costs have not been fully elucidated.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 3 2%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 152 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 17%
Researcher 26 17%
Other 11 7%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 29 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 52 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 5%
Other 28 18%
Unknown 35 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 July 2021.
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#3,932,111
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Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,237
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#34,281
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#23
of 152 outputs
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