Disseminated tuberculosis among hospitalised HIV patients in South Africa: a common condition that can be rapidly diagnosed using urine-based assays

HIV-associated disseminated TB (tuberculosis) has been under-recognised and poorly characterised. Blood culture is the gold-standard diagnostic test, but is expensive, slow, and may under-diagnose TB dissemination. In a cohort of hospitalised HIV patients, we aimed to report the prevalence of TB-blo...

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Autores principales: Kerkhoff, Andrew D., Barr, David A., Schutz, Charlotte, Burton, Rosie, Nicol, Mark P., Lawn, Stephen D., Meintjes, Graeme
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09895-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28883510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09895-7

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