Potential value of urine lateral-flow lipoarabinomannan (LAM) test for diagnosing tuberculosis among severely acute malnourished children

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious co-morbidity among children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and TB diagnosis remains particularly challenging in the very young. We explored whether, in a low HIV-prevalence setting, the detection of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antigen in uri...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Schramm, Birgit, Nganaboy, Rodrigue C., Uwiragiye, Piex, Mukeba, Didier, Abdoubara, Aboubacar, Abdou, Illa, Nshimiymana, Jean-Claude, Sounna, Seyni, Hiffler, Laurent, Flevaud, Laurence, Huerga, Helena
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099085/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951082
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250933
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