Reasons for false-positive lipoarabinomannan ELISA results in a Tanzanian population

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 144-148

  Kroidl, Inge ^a,b   Clowes, Petra ^b   Mwakyelu, Joshua ^b   Maboko, Leonard ^b   Kiangi, Abubakary ^c   Rachow, Andrea ^a,b,d   Reither, Klaus ^b,e   Jung, Jutta ^b   Nsojo, Anthony ^b   Saathoff, Elmar ^a,b,d   Hoelscher, Michael ^a,b,d  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NIMRMbeya Medical Research Centre   (Tanzania)

^c Mbeya Referral Hospital Laboratory   (Tanzania)

^d German Center for Infection Research   (Germany)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contamination; ELISA; Lipoarabinomannan; Tuberculosis; Urine

Indexed keywords

LIPOARABINOMANNAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILD; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DUST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES; FEMALE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOIL; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS RAPID TEST; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892638741     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2013.853133     Document Type: Article

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