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Diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for bone and joint tuberculosis: A meta-analysis

Yanqin Shen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanqin Shen, Guocan Yu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zhejiang Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Zhejiang Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Integrated Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Guocan Yu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanqin Shen, Guocan Yu

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zhejiang Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Zhejiang Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Integrated Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Fangming Zhong,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Zhejiang Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Zhejiang Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Integrated Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Xiaohua Kong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: kongxiaohuamed@sina.com

Affiliation Zhejiang Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Zhejiang Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Integrated Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-3259

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Diagnostic accuracy of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for bone and joint tuberculosis: A meta-analysis

Yanqin Shen,
Guocan Yu,
Fangming Zhong,
Xiaohua Kong

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Published: August 22, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221427

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