TY - JOUR AU - Thapa, Badri AU - Reza, Lord Wasim AU - Kumar, Ajay MV AU - Pandey, Ashish AU - Satyanarayana, Srinath AU - Chadha, Sarabjit PY - 2015 DA - 2015/10/23 TI - Light Emitting Diode Fluorescence Microscopy increased the detection of smear-positives during follow-up of Tuberculosis patients in India: program implications JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 596 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - In India, since July 2012, at designated Microscopy Centers (DMCs) in 200 medical colleges, sputum smear examination for tuberculosis bacilli changed from Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) method to auramine based Light Emitting Diode Fluorescent Microscopy (LED-FM) method. We assessed the additional yield of smear positives among patients undergoing follow-up sputum examination during TB treatment before and after deploying LED-FM. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1584-z DO - 10.1186/s13104-015-1584-z ID - Thapa2015 ER -