Urinary Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in HIV sero-negative miliary tuberculosis patients.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from infectious diseases worldwide next to COVID. Miliary presentation is a form of TB that can cause 100% mortality without treatment. Due to lack of a gold standard test, a systematic approach of high index of clinical suspicion and efforts at demonstrating Mycobacterium tuberculosis is imperative to early treatment initiation and mortality reduction.