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Treatment outcomes in each study arm indicating the potential impact of LAM in TB culture positive patients. a Smear-microscopy b clinic-based Xpert MTB/RIF testing. ‘False-positives’: These indicate patients that were sputum culture-negative, smear or Xpert MTB/RIF-negative and not given empiric TB treatment by the attending clinician that would have been LAM positive. These patients would have thus received inappropriate anti-TB treatment
