A Trial of the Urine LAM Strip Test for TB Diagnosis Amongst Hospitalized HIV-infected Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

2,618

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 31, 2013

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2014

Study Completion Date

January 31, 2015

Conditions
Tuberculosis
Interventions
DEVICE

Urine LAM strip test

This is a point-of-care lateral flow strip test to detect the presence of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in patient urine samples. Only patients with a grade 2-5 visual band intensity will be considered positive and commenced on treatment

Trial Locations (4)

7945

University of Cape Town, Cape Town

Unknown

Mbeya Medical Research Programme, Mbeya

University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka

University of Zimbabwe, Harare

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Zimbabwe

OTHER

collaborator

University of Zambia

OTHER

collaborator

NIMR - Mbeya Medical Research Programme

UNKNOWN

lead

University of Cape Town

OTHER

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