The impact and cost of scaling up GeneXpert MTB/RIF in South Africa.

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Published in PLoS One on May 31, 2012

Authors

Gesine Meyer-Rath1, Kathryn Schnippel, Lawrence Long, William MacLeod, Ian Sanne, Wendy Stevens, Sagie Pillay, Yogan Pillay, Sydney Rosen

Author Affiliations

1: Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. gesine@bu.edu

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