Test characteristics of urinary lipoarabinomannan and predictors of mortality among hospitalized HIV-infected tuberculosis suspects in Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Talbot, Elizabeth ^a,b   Munseri, Patricia ^c,d   Teixeira, Pedro ^a   Matee, Mecky ^c   Bakari, Muhammad ^c   Lahey, Timothy ^a   von Reyn, Fordham ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS   (Switzerland)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; LIPOARABINOMANNAN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COINFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857834055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032876     Document Type: Article

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