Clinical Predictors and Accuracy of Empiric Tuberculosis Treatment among Sputum Smear-Negative HIV-Infected Adult TB Suspects in Uganda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Nakiyingi, Lydia ^a   Bwanika, John Mark ^a   Kirenga, Bruce ^a   Nakanjako, Damalie ^a   Katabira, Catherine ^a   Lubega, Gloria ^a   Sempa, Joseph ^a   Nyesiga, Barnabas ^b   Albert, Heidi ^b   Manabe, Yukari C ^a,c  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)   (Uganda)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COINFECTION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA;

EID: 84883607703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074023     Document Type: Review

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