Clinical utility of anti-lipoarabinomannan antibodies testing for the diagnosis of tuberculous arthritis

Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is often challenging. In this work we discuss the utility of an assay for Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antibody detection in synovial fluid. LAM is one of the three major groups of lipopolysaccharides within the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cell wall. An...

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Autores principales: Passiu, Giuseppe, Erre, Gian Luca, Pirina, Pietro, Sechi, Leonardo Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-0858-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-0858-1

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