Open Access<p>Prevalence of Tuberculosis by Automated GeneXpert Rifampicin Assay and Associated Risk Factors Among Presumptive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Ataye District Hospital, North East Ethiopia</p>
Author(s) -
Daniel Gebretsadik,
Nuru Ahmed,
Edosa Kebede,
Miftah Mohammed,
Melaku Ashagrie Belete
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s248059
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , genexpert mtb/rif , mycobacterium tuberculosis , univariate analysis , sputum , rifampicin , statistical significance , multivariate analysis , pathology
Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that is a major cause of ill health, one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, even ranking above human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV/AIDS).