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New HIV/AIDS Study Findings Have Been Published by Scientists at Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 2nd, 2011
2011 NOV 2 -- "Tests that detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in clinical specimens could provide rapid direct evidence of active disease. We performed a systematic review to assess the diagnostic accuracy of antigen detection tests for active tuberculosis (TB) according to standard methods and summarized test performance using bivariate random effects meta-analysis," scientists writing in the journal Clinical and Vaccine Immunology report.
"Overall, study quality was a concern. For pulmonary TB (47 studies, 5,036 participants), sensitivity estimates ranged from 2% to 100% and specificity from 33% to 100%. Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) was the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2011-11-02)
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