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Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Laboratory Strategy and Finding the Missing Cases

A Ministries of Health training deck on DR-TB diagnosis: the End TB strategy goals, Kenya's TB control infrastructure across counties, treatment sites, microscopy and molecular laboratories and GeneXpert sites, the evidence on cases first seeking care in the private sector, the leaky diagnostic cascade and the national targets. The laboratory sections compare smear microscopy, GeneXpert MTB/RIF, line probe assay and culture with phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing, with the resistance and management table and the caution that a negative test does not exclude TB.

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