| Literature DB >> 23825194 |
Laura Savolainen1, Anu Kantele, Bettina Sandboge, Marita Sirén, Heikki Valleala, Riitta Tuompo, Liana Pusa, Riitta Erkinjuntti-Pekkanen, Aija Knuuttila, Cheng-Lung Ku, Chih-Yu Chi, Tuula Vasankari, Tamara Tuuminen.
Abstract
Diagnosis of active tuberculosis by detection of urinary lipoarabinomannan (uLAM) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an attractive approach. Concentrating urine 100-fold allowed quantitation of uLAM at levels equal to picograms/ml of nonconcentrated urine. The approach of concentrating urine 100-fold improved the clinical sensitivity of the Clearview TB enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) from 7% to 57% yet impaired its specificity from 97% to 89%. (This study has been registered at University Hospital of Turku under registration no. 47/180/2009, Helsinki University Central Hospital under 149/2010, University Hospital of Kuopio under 105/2010, and China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, under DMR-99-IRB-075-2.).Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23825194 PMCID: PMC3889579 DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00375-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Vaccine Immunol ISSN: 1556-679X