Cost Analysis of a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at an Urban Hospital with a High Prevalence of TB/HIV

Max W. Adelman; Ekaterina Kurbatova; Yun F. Wang; Michael K. Leonard; Nancy White; Deborah A. McFarland; Henry M. Blumberg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100649

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Cost Analysis of a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at an Urban Hospital with a High Prevalence of TB/HIV

Max W. Adelman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Max W. Adelman, Ekaterina Kurbatova

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Ekaterina Kurbatova ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Max W. Adelman, Ekaterina Kurbatova

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Yun F. Wang,

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Michael K. Leonard,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Nancy White,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Deborah A. McFarland,

Affiliation Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Henry M. Blumberg

* E-mail: henry.m.blumberg@emory.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Cost Analysis of a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at an Urban Hospital with a High Prevalence of TB/HIV

Max W. Adelman,
Ekaterina Kurbatova,
Yun F. Wang,
Michael K. Leonard,
Nancy White,
Deborah A. McFarland,
Henry M. Blumberg

Published: July 11, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100649

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