Background Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's leading infectious cause of death.
Extrapulmonary TB accounts for 15% of TB cases, but the proportion is increasing, and over …

Background Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Xpert Ultra) and Xpert MTB/RIF are World Health
Organization (WHO)‐recommended rapid nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) widely …

ABSTRACT A systematic review investigating the role of Xpert MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of
tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) was conducted. The pooled sensitivities and specificities …

Objective We compared diagnostic accuracy of pleural fluid Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) and Xpert
MTB/RIF Ultra (Ultra) assays for diagnosing tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE), through …

Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic validity of GeneXpert for the detection of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in pericardial and pleural effusions samples. Methods: A …

Pleural tuberculosis (pTB) is a grave form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Microbiological
tests are usually found to be inadequate for pTB diagnosis. The absence of a uniform …

Background Tuberculous pleurisy (TP) presents a diagnostic problem due to the limitations
of traditional diagnostic methods. Different studies with the Xpert MTB/RIF assay have drawn …

Objective The GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay (Xpert) is a diagnostic tool that has been shown to
significantly improve the accuracy of tuberculosis (TB) detection in clinical settings, with …

Background Tuberculosis poses a severe threat to human health. At present, compared with
the traditional diagnostic methods for tuberculosis pleural effusion, such as Löwenstein …

The diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) depends on the demonstration of
tubercle bacilli in pleural fluid, a pleural biopsy specimen, or the demonstration of …