Point-of-Care Lateral Flow Assays for Tuberculosis and Cryptococcal Antigenuria Predict Death in HIV Infected Adults in Uganda

BACKGROUND: Mortality in hospitalized, febrile patients in Sub-Saharan Africa is high due to HIV-infected, severely immunosuppressed patients with opportunistic co-infection, particularly disseminated tuberculosis (TB) and cryptococcal disease. We sought to determine if a positive lateral flow assay...

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Main Authors: Manabe, Yukari C., Nonyane, Bareng A. S., Nakiyingi, Lydia, Mbabazi, Olive, Lubega, Gloria, Shah, Maunank, Moulton, Lawrence H., Joloba, Moses, Ellner, Jerrold, Dorman, Susan E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4084886/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25000489
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101459
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