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Rapid urine-based screening for tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients admitted to hospital in Africa (STAMP): a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel-group, double-blind, randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Current diagnostics for HIV-associated tuberculosis are suboptimal, with missed diagnoses contributing to high hospital mortality and approximately 374 000 annual HIV-positive deaths globally. Urine-based assays have a good diagnostic yield; therefore, we aimed to assess whether urine-ba...

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Autores principales: Gupta-Wright, Ankur, Corbett, Elizabeth L, van Oosterhout, Joep J, Wilson, Douglas, Grint, Daniel, Alufandika-Moyo, Melanie, Peters, Jurgens A, Chiume, Lingstone, Flach, Clare, Lawn, Stephen D, Fielding, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30032978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31267-4