The potential impact of urine-LAM diagnostics on tuberculosis incidence and mortality: A modelling analysis.

Saskia Ricks Claudia M Denkinger Samuel G Schumacher Timothy B Hallett Nimalan Arinaminpathy

Published in: PLoS medicine (2020)

These results suggest that LAM tests could have an important effect in averting TB deaths amongst PLHIV with advanced disease. However, achieving population-level impact on the TB epidemic, even in high-HIV-burden settings, will require future LAM tests to have sufficient performance to be deployed more broadly than in HIV care.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
risk factors
hiv aids
antiretroviral therapy
hiv infected
hiv positive
human immunodeficiency virus
hepatitis c virus
pulmonary tuberculosis
hiv testing
current status
human health
coronary artery disease
south africa
climate change
data analysis
electronic health record