Lateral Flow Urine Lipoarabinomannan Assay for Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis in Adults With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Detection of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan antigen in urine has emerged as a potential point-of-care test for diagnosis of tuberculosis. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LF-LAM) assay for diagnosis of active tuberculosis among Thai adults with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Methods: HIV-infected adult patients with CD4 cell counts ≤200/μL and symptoms suggestive of active tuberculosis were prospectively recruited from both inpatient and outpatient settings at Siriraj Hospital and Chonburi Hospital in Thailand during the study period from December 2015 to March 2017.

INVASIVE SALMONELLOSIS PRESENTING AS A LUNG ABSCESS: A CASE REPORT.

Salmonella spp are an uncommon cause of lung abscess. A 59 year old man presented to our hospital with a 1 month history of cough and low grade fever progressing to high grade fever for 1 week. He had a past medical history significant for diabetes mellitus type 2 and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis for which he was receiving prednisolone, initially at 60 mg daily tapering to 20 mg daily.

Factors associated with state hospital utilisation among Thai elderly who had illnesses which needed hospitalisation.

Of the 4,480 elderly subjects in a multistage random sampling household survey of a National Survey of the Welfare of the Elderly in Thailand (SWET), 669 (14.9%) reported that they had been hospitalised during the last year and were recruited in an analysis which aimed to examine associated factors of state hospital utilisation among Thai elderly. Seventy eight per cent had been admitted once during the last year.