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Rapid diagnosis of new and relapse tuberculosis by quantification of a circulating antigen in HIV-infected adults in the Greater Houston metropolitan area

BACKGROUND: HIV-associated immune defects inhibit tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis, promote development of extrapulmonary TB and paucibacillary pulmonary TB cases with atypical radiographic features, and increase TB relapse rates. We therefore assessed the diagnostic performance of a novel assay that dir...

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Autores principales: Fan, Jia, Zhang, Hedong, Nguyen, Duc T., Lyon, Christopher J., Mitchell, Charles D., Zhao, Zhen, Graviss, Edward A., Hu, Ye
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29089034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0952-z