Same-Day Diagnosis versus the Conventional ‘Spot-Morning-Spot’ Using Ziehl-Neelsen and Fluorescent Microscopy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Araya Masresha, Daniel Mekonen, Yosef Gashaw, Feker Asera & Chandrashekhar Unakal · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2018
Introduction: Diagnosis of spot-morning-spot (SMS) smear microscopy is inconvenient for patients, who have to make multiple visits to health facilities to submit multiple sputum specimens over two days and may visit also for an extra day to collect the result. Optimization of sme...
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10.9734/MRJI/2018/34363