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Performance of urine lipoarabinomannan assays for paediatric tuberculosis in Tanzania.

Eur Respir J

September 2015

Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Germany German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Germany National Institute for Medical Research-Mbeya Medical Research Centre, Mbeya, Tanzania.

We evaluated the diagnostic performance of two tests based on the release of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) into the urine, the MTB-LAM-ELISA assay and the Determine TB-LAM-strip assay, in children with suspected tuberculosis (TB) in a high TB/HIV-prevalence setting.In a prospective study, 132 children with suspected active TB were assigned to diagnostic subgroups. Urine samples were subjected to testing by both assays to ascertain sensitivity and specificity.

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