Urinary biomarkers of mycobacterial load and treatment response in pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND Control of the tuberculosis (TB) pandemic remains hindered in part by a lack of simple and accurate measures of treatment efficacy, as current gold standard markers rely on sputum-based assays that are slow and challenging to implement. However, previous work identified urinary N1, N12-di...

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Main Authors: Qianjing Xia, Myung Hee Lee, Kathleen F. Walsh, Kathrine McAulay, James M. Bean, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Kathryn M. Dupnik, Warren D. Johnson, Jean W. Pape, Kyu Y. Rhee, Flonza Isa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Clinical investigation 2020-09-01
Series:JCI Insight
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.136301