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The utility of point-of-care urinary lipoarabinomannan testing for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in critically ill patients: a prospective observational study

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a major global public health concern. Patients with tuberculosis who require critical care have a high mortality and delay in initiating antituberculous therapy is associated with increased mortality. Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) is a lipopolysaccharide found in the cell wall...

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Autores principales: de Vasconcellos, Kim, Ramjathan, Praksha, Singh, Dhivendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33740905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-05979-y