Point of care testing evaluation of lateral flow immunoassay for diagnosis of cryptococcus meningitis in HIV-positive patients at an urban hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, 2017

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) against latex agglutination (LA), India ink and culture in point-of-care diagnosis of cryptococcus meningitis (CM). We conducted cross-sectional study among HIV-positive patients with suspected...

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Autores principales: Gitonga, Lawrence Kirimi, Boru, Waqo Gufu, Kwena, Arthur, Maritim, Marybeth, Wamicwe, Joyce, Ransom, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6896259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31806044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4829-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6896259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31806044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4829-4

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