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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |