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Multicentre evaluation of Ziehl-Neelsen and light-emitting diode fluorescence microscopy in China

DOI

50

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0

References

2012

Year

Hui Xia, Y-Y. Song, Bing Zhao, KM Kam, Richard O’Brien, ZY Zhang, Hojoon Sohn, W Wang, Y-L Zhao
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

LED-FM compared favourably with ZN, with a higher smear-positive detection rate, a shorter examination time and lower unit examination cost. LED-FM may be an alternative to ZN as a cost-effective method for detecting bacilli in peripheral laboratories in China.