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HIV-associated tuberculosis: relationship between disease severity and the sensitivity of new sputum-based and urine-based diagnostic assays

BACKGROUND: Reducing mortality from HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) requires diagnostic tools that are rapid and have high sensitivity among patients with poor prognosis. We determined the relationship between disease severity and the sensitivity of new sputum-based and urine-based diagnostic assay...

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Autores principales: Lawn, Stephen D, Kerkhoff, Andrew D, Vogt, Monica, Wood, Robin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4231603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24168211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-231