Laboratories advised to look out for tuberculosis false-positives
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Tuberculosis control programmes should always be on the lookout for clusters of false-positive diagnoses in the data they analyse, advises the US Centers for Disease Control. The CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report on August 29 analyses a series of five incidents in which 11 patients were misdiagnosed as having TB.