Incremental Yield of Including Determine-TB LAM Assay in Diagnostic Algorithms for Hospitalized and Ambulatory HIV-Positive Patients in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Determine-TB LAM assay is a urine point-of-care test useful for TB diagnosis in HIV-positive patients. We assessed the incremental diagnostic yield of adding LAM to algorithms based on clinical signs, sputum smear-microscopy, chest X-ray and Xpert MTB/RIF in HIV-positive patients with sy...

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Autores principales: Huerga, Helena, Ferlazzo, Gabriella, Bevilacqua, Paolo, Kirubi, Beatrice, Ardizzoni, Elisa, Wanjala, Stephen, Sitienei, Joseph, Bonnet, Maryline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5268475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28125693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170976

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5268475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28125693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170976

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