Liquid vs Solid Culture Medium to Evaluate Proportion and Time to Change in Management of Suspects of Tuberculosis—A Pragmatic Randomized Trial in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Units in Brazil

• Adriana da Silva Rezende Moreira,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Gisele Huf,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Maria Armanda Monteiro da Silva Vieira,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Paulo Albuquerque da Costa,

  Affiliations Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Policlínica Augusto Amaral Peixoto, Guadalupe/SMS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Fábio Aguiar,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Anna Grazia Marsico,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Leila de Souza Fonseca,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Mônica Ricks,

  Affiliation Policlínica Augusto Amaral Peixoto, Guadalupe/SMS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Martha Maria Oliveira,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Anne Detjen,

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• Paula Isono Fujiwara,

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• Stephen Bertel Squire,

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Afranio Lineu Kritski

  * E-mail: kritskia@gmail.com

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Academic Program, Medical School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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