Urine lipoarabinomannan testing for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children: a prospective study
Open Access
- 8 April 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Lancet. Global Health
- Vol. 2 (5), e278-e284
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(14)70195-0
Abstract
No abstract availableKeywords
Funding Information
- US National Institutes of Health (1R01HD058971-01)
- National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) Research Trust, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, and the Wellcome Trust (085251/B/08/Z)
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Clinical significance of lipoarabinomannan detection in urine using a low-cost point-of-care diagnostic assay for HIV-associated tuberculosisAIDS, 2012
- Rapid Molecular Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children Using Nasopharyngeal SpecimensClinical Infectious Diseases, 2012
- High Diagnostic Yield of Tuberculosis From Screening Urine Samples From HIV-Infected Patients With Advanced Immunodeficiency Using The Xpert MTB/RIF AssayJAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2012
- Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Children: 1. Proposed Clinical Case Definitions for Classification of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis Disease. Consensus From an Expert PanelThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012
- Point-of-care detection of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine for diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis: a state of the art reviewBMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
- Diagnostic accuracy of a low-cost, urine antigen, point-of-care screening assay for HIV-associated pulmonary tuberculosis before antiretroviral therapy: a descriptive studyThe Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2012
- Diagnostic accuracy of a urine lipoarabinomannan strip-test for TB detection in HIV-infected hospitalised patientsEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2012
- New specimens and laboratory diagnostics for childhood pulmonary TB: progress and prospectsPaediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2011
- Detection of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan with an antigen-capture ELISA in unprocessed urine of Tanzanian patients with suspected tuberculosisTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2005
- Induced sputum versus gastric lavage for microbiological confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis in infants and young children: a prospective studyThe Lancet, 2005