Utility of the lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan tuberculosis assay in patients with advanced HIV disease at antiretroviral therapy centres in Mumbai, India.

Utility of the lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan tuberculosis assay in patients with advanced HIV disease at antiretroviral therapy centres in Mumbai, India.

<h4>Background</h4>People with Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) are at higher risk of TB coinfection and mortality. However, there are challenges in TB diagnosis with the currently recommended diagnostic tools. WHO recommends lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) assay to assist TB dia...

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Main Authors: Shrikala Acharya, Prashant Deshpande, Edwin Sam Asirvatham, Amol Palkar, Charishma Jones Sarman, Chinmay Laxmeshwar, Maninder Singh Setia, Dhirubhai Rathod, Sagar Koli, Jayesh Dale, Vijay Yeldandi, Ramesh Allam, Reshu Agarwal, Sanjeev Verma, Sunita Upadhyaya, Melissa Nyendak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273970

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