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SUBMITTER: Cota GF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3771302 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cota Gláucia Fernandes GF de Sousa Marcos Roberto MR de Freitas Nogueira Betânia Mara BM Gomes Luciana Inácia LI Oliveira Edward E Assis Tália Santana Machado TS de Mendonça Andréa Laender Pessoa AL Pinto Bruna Fernandes BF Saliba Juliana Wilke JW Rabello Ana A
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20130708 3
The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of invasive and non-invasive tests for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in a large series of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. In this delayed-type cross-sectional study, 113 HIV-infected symptomatic patients were evaluated by an adjudication committee after clinical follow-up to establish the presence or absence of VL as the target condition (reference test). The index tests were recombinant K39 antigen-based immunoc ...[more]