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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...
Autores principales: | Kerkhoff, Andrew D., Barr, David A., Schutz, Charlotte, Burton, Rosie, Nicol, Mark P., Lawn, Stephen D., Meintjes, Graeme |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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