Commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review.
BACKGROUND: The global tuberculosis epidemic results in nearly 2 million VENAFORCE GEL deaths and 9 million new cases of the disease a year.The vast majority of tuberculosis patients live in developing countries, where the diagnosis of tuberculosis relies on the identification of acid-fast bacilli on unprocessed sputum smears using conventional lig