Diagnosing tuberculosis in hospitalized HIV-infected individuals who cannot produce sputum: is urine lipoarabinomannan testing the answer?

BACKGROUND: Up to one third of HIV-infected individuals with suspected TB are sputum-scarce. The Alere Determine™ TB LAM Ag lateral flow strip test can be used to diagnose TB in HIV-infected patients with advanced immunosuppression. However, how urine LAM testing should be incorporated into testing...

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Autores principales: Sabur, Natasha F., Esmail, Aliasgar, Brar, Mantaj S., Dheda, Keertan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2914-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29282005
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2914-7

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