Evaluation of a diagnostic algorithm for sputum smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 331-338

  Padmapriyadarsini, Chandrasekaran ^a   Tripathy, Srikanth ^b   Sekar, Lakshmanan ^a   Bhavani, Perumal Kannabiran ^a   Gaikwad, Nitin ^c   Annadurai, Srinivasan ^d   Narendran, Gopalan ^a   Selvakumar, Nagamiah ^a   Risbud, Arun R ^b   Sheta, Dinesh ^b   Rajasekaran, Sikhamani ^d   Thomas, Aleyamma ^a   Wares, Fraser ^e   Swaminathan, Soumya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c YCM Hospital   (India)

^d Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine   (India)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambulatory HIV infected; Chest radiography; Chest symptomatics

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84880191338     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31829341af     Document Type: Article

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