Urine lipoarabinomannan point-of-care testing in patients affected by pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria – experiences from the Danish Cystic Fibrosis cohort study

BACKGROUND: The urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) strip test has been suggested as a new point-of-care test for active tuberculosis (TB) among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals. It has been questioned if infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) affect assay specificity. We...

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Autores principales: Qvist, Tavs, Johansen, Isik S, Pressler, Tania, Høiby, Niels, Andersen, Aase B, Katzenstein, Terese L, Bjerrum, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4260379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0655-4

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