Point-of-care urine lipoarabinomannan antigen detection for diagnosis of tuberculosis in children
Hitender Gautam, Mohit Singla, Rakhi Jain, Rakesh Lodha, S. K. Kabra, Urvashi B. Singh
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2019-06
Abstract
< 0.002). </sec> <sec> <title>CONCLUSION</title> Urinary LAM testing showed high specificity and sensitivity, was detected in more cases initiated on treatment than reference tests, and improved disease detection by 38.5% in ITTB patients and by 41.6% in LNTB patients. </sec>.
MeSH terms
- Lipoarabinomannan
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Urine
- Sputum
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Internal medicine
- Tuberculosis diagnosis
- Antigen
- Gastroenterology