Clinical Predictors and Accuracy of Empiric Tuberculosis Treatment among Sputum Smear-Negative HIV-Infected Adult TB Suspects in Uganda

• Lydia Nakiyingi ,

  * E-mail: lydikiyingi@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• John Mark Bwanika,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Bruce Kirenga,

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Damalie Nakanjako,

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Catherine Katabira,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Gloria Lubega,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Joseph Sempa,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Barnabas Nyesiga,

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda

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• Heidi Albert,

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Kampala, Uganda

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• Yukari C. Manabe

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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