Can Point-of-Care Urine LAM Strip Testing for Tuberculosis Add Value to Clinical Decision Making in Hospitalised HIV-Infected Persons?

BACKGROUND: The urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) strip-test (Determine®-TB) can rapidly rule-in TB in HIV-infected persons with advanced immunosuppression. However, given high rates of empiric treatment amongst hospitalised patients in high-burden settings (∼50%) it is unclear whether LAM can add any v...

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Autores principales: Peter, Jonathan G., Theron, Grant, Dheda, Keertan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23390504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054875

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23390504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054875

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