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Blinded evaluation of commercial urinary lipoarabinomannan for active tuberculosis: a pilot study.

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Peter Daley, J S Michael, P Hmar, A Latha, Poorvi Chordia, D Mathai, K. R. John, Madhukar Pai

Abstract

In its current form, LAM is insensitive for the diagnosis of active TB, although its specificity is adequate.

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