%0 Journal Article
%T Costo-efectividad de los m¨¦todos de diagn¨®stico de la tuberculosis
%A Navarro-Reynoso
%A Francisco
%A Hern¨¢ndez-Sol¨ªs
%A Alejandro
%A P¨¦rez-Romo
%A Alfredo
%A Cicero-Sabido
%A Ra¨²l
%J Revista del Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X tuberculosis can be a silent disease that can progress into chronic and irreversible forms leading to incapacitaron and death; not rarely the diagnosis in made at the autopsy table. lung tuberculosis is diagnosed by readily avaible methods; extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis may require biopsy material. the usual laboratory diagnosis includes ziehl-neelsen smears for acid fast bacilli fluorescence techniques and lowestein-jensen cultures; for body fluids, new procedures include polymerase chain reaction and adenosine deaminase. the mycobacterium growth identification tube culture allows a quicker identification of mycobacteria and earlier medical treatment, preventing the progression of tb and potential appearance of complications that represent a heavy monetary burden for the responsible institutions. this study presents the advantages and cost-effectiveness of several diagnostic procedures for tb, pondering the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of each one.
%K diagnostic methods
%K cost-effectiveness
%K tuberculosis.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0187-75852006000300007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en