Diagnostic performance of blood inflammatory markers for tuberculosis screening in people living with HIV.

Diagnostic performance of blood inflammatory markers for tuberculosis screening in people living with HIV.

BACKGROUND:Approaches to screening for active tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV are inadequate, leading to missed diagnoses and poor implementation of preventive therapy. METHODS:Consecutive HIV-infected adults hospitalized at Mulago Hospital (Kampala, Uganda) between June 2011 and July...

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Main Authors:	Katherine Farr, Resmi Ravindran, Luke Strnad, Emily Chang, Lelia H Chaisson, Christina Yoon, William Worodria, Alfred Andama, Irene Ayakaka, Priscilla Bbosa Nalwanga, Patrick Byanyima, Nelson Kalema, Sylvia Kaswabuli, Winceslaus Katagira, Kyomugisha Denise Aman, Emmanuel Musisi, Nuwagaba Wallen Tumwine, Ingvar Sanyu, Robert Ssebunya, J Lucian Davis, Laurence Huang, Imran H Khan, Adithya Cattamanchi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:	PLoS ONE
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6198956?pdf=render

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