Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay in High Burden Countries: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

• Anna Vassall,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Sanne van Kampen,

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Hojoon Sohn,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada

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• Joy S. Michael,

  Affiliation Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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• K. R. John,

  Affiliation National TB Program, Vellore, India

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• Saskia den Boon,

  Affiliation Makerere University - University of California, San Francisco (MU-UCSF) Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• J. Lucian Davis,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

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• Andrew Whitelaw,

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology and Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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• Mark P. Nicol,

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology and Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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• Maria Tarcela Gler,

  Affiliation Tropical Disease Foundation, Manila, Philippines

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• Anar Khaliqov,

  Affiliation Special Treatment Institution, Baku, Azerbaijan

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• Carlos Zamudio,

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Mark D. Perkins,

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Catharina C. Boehme,

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Frank Cobelens

  * E-mail: f.cobelens@aighd.org

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, and Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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