Meintjes G

ORCID: 0000-0003-1196-4414 · 1 paper in corpus

2017

Disseminated tuberculosis among hospitalised HIV patients in South Africa: a common condition that can be rapidly diagnosed using urine-based assays.

Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09895-7

HIV-associated disseminated TB (tuberculosis) has been under-recognised and poorly characterised. Blood culture is the gold-standard diagnostic test, but is expensive, slow, and may under-diagnose TB dissemination. In a cohort of hospitalis…