Diagnostic accuracy of antigen detection in urine and molecular assays testing in different clinical samples for the diagnosis of progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in patients living with HIV/AIDS: A prospective multicenter study in Mexico.

• Main Authors: Areli Martínez-Gamboa (Author), María Dolores Niembro-Ortega (Author), Pedro Torres-González (Author), Janeth Santiago-Cruz (Author), Nancy Guadalupe Velázquez-Zavala (Author), Andrea Rangel-Cordero (Author), Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez (Author), Armando Gamboa-Domínguez (Author), Edgardo Reyes-Gutiérrez (Author), Gustavo Reyes-Terán (Author), Víctor Hugo Lozano-Fernandez (Author), Víctor Hugo Ahumada-Topete (Author), Pedro Martínez-Ayala (Author), Marisol Manríquez-Reyes (Author), Juan Pablo Ramírez-Hinojosa (Author), Patricia Rodríguez-Zulueta (Author), Christian Hernández-León (Author), Jesús Ruíz-Quiñones (Author), Norma Eréndira Rivera-Martínez (Author), Alberto Chaparro-Sánchez (Author), Jaime Andrade-Villanueva (Author), Luz Alicia González-Hernández (Author), Sofia Cruz-Martínez (Author), Oscar Flores-Barrientos (Author), Jesús Enrique Gaytán-Martínez (Author), Martín Magaña-Aquino (Author), Axel Cervantes-Sánchez (Author), Antonio Olivas-Martínez (Author), Javier Araujo-Meléndez (Author), María Del Rocío Reyes-Montes (Author), Esperanza Duarte-Escalante (Author), María Guadalupe Frías-De León (Author), José Antonio Ramírez (Author), María Lucia Taylor (Author), Alfredo Ponce de León-Garduño (Author), José Sifuentes-Osornio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH) has been associated with severe disease and high risk of death among people living with HIV (PLWHIV). Therefore, the purpose of this multicenter, prospective, double-blinded study done in ten Mexican hospitals was to de...