Clinical Utility of a Commercial LAM-ELISA Assay for TB Diagnosis in HIV-Infected Patients Using Urine and Sputum Samples

BACKGROUND: The accurate diagnosis of TB in HIV-infected patients, particularly with advanced immunosuppression, is difficult. Recent studies indicate that a lipoarabinomannan (LAM) assay (Clearview-TB®-ELISA) may have some utility for the diagnosis of TB in HIV-infected patients; however, the preci...

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Autores principales: Dheda, Keertan, Davids, Virginia, Lenders, Laura, Roberts, Teri, Meldau, Richard, Ling, Daphne, Brunet, Laurence, van Zyl Smit, Richard, Peter, Jonathan, Green, Clare, Badri, Motasim, Sechi, Leonardo, Sharma, Surendra, Hoelscher, Michael, Dawson, Rodney, Whitelaw, Andrew, Blackburn, Jonathan, Pai, Madhukar, Zumla, Alimuddin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20352098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009848

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20352098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009848

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