Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults

JS Zifodya, I Schiller, N Dendukuri… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert MTB/RIF) and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra), the
newest version, are the only World Health Organization (WHO)‐recommended rapid tests …

Advances in molecular diagnosis of tuberculosis

E MacLean, M Kohli, SF Weber, A Suresh… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular tests for tuberculosis (TB) have the potential to help reach the three million people
with TB who are undiagnosed or not reported each year and to improve the quality of care …

GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Test accuracy: inconsistency, imprecision, publication bias, and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence and presenting it in …

HJ Schünemann, RA Mustafa, J Brozek… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This article provides updated GRADE guidance about how authors of systematic
reviews and health technology assessments and guideline developers can rate the certainty …

GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias, and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy

HJ Schünemann, RA Mustafa, J Brozek… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This article provides updated GRADE guidance about how authors of systematic
reviews and health technology assessments and guideline developers can assess the …

Diagnostic biomarkers for active tuberculosis: progress and challenges

BMF Nogueira, S Krishnan… - EMBO Molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality from a single infectious
agent, despite being preventable and curable. Early and accurate diagnosis of active TB is …

Reimagining the status quo: How close are we to rapid sputum-free tuberculosis diagnostics for all?

RR Nathavitharana, AL Garcia-Basteiro, M Ruhwald… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Rapid, accurate, sputum-free tests for tuberculosis (TB) triage and confirmation are urgently
needed to close the widening diagnostic gap. We summarise key technologies and review …

[HTML][HTML] Genitourinary Tuberculosis

EH Tobin, K Roddy, SK Jha, SW Leslie, B Rathish - StatPearls, 2024 - europepmc.org
Genitourinary Tuberculosis Ellis H. Tobin; Kristina Roddy; Suman K. Jha; Stephen W. Leslie;
Balram Rathish. Author Information Last Update: August 16, 2024. Continuing Education …

Lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay for detecting active tuberculosis in people living with HIV

S Bjerrum, I Schiller, N Dendukuri… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan (LF‐LAM) assay Alere Determine™
TB LAM Ag is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help detect active …

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra and Xpert MTB/RIF assays for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults

M Kohli, I Schiller, N Dendukuri, M Yao… - Cochrane Database …, 2021 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra) and Xpert MTB/RIF are World Health
Organization (WHO)‐recommended rapid nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) widely …

Tuberculous pleural effusion

JA Shaw, AH Diacon, CFN Koegelenberg - Respirology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculous effusion is a common disease entity with a spectrum of presentations from a
largely benign effusion, which resolves completely, to a complicated effusion with …