False positives in TB diagnosis lead to real negatives for HIV patients

Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

HIV-infected patients who are falsely diagnosed as having tuberculosis (TB) have higher rates of mortality than those who are correctly diagnosed with the disease, according to a study conducted by researchers at University of California-San Francisco and Makerere University-Kampala.

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