Sputum quality and diagnostic performance of GeneXpert MTB/RIF among smear-negative adults with presumed tuberculosis in Uganda

• Amanda J. Meyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda J. Meyer, Collins Atuheire

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2318-1783

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• Collins Atuheire ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amanda J. Meyer, Collins Atuheire

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences & Special Education, Africa Renewal University, Kampala, Uganda

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• William Worodria,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Samuel Kizito,

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Achilles Katamba,

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ingvar Sanyu,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

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• Alfred Andama,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mulago Hospital, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

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• Irene Ayakaka,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

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• Adithya Cattamanchi,

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

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• Freddie Bwanga,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Laurence Huang,

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• J. Lucian Davis

  * E-mail: lucian.davis@yale.edu

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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