Diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis by multi-targeted loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay based on SYBR Green I reaction: comparison with GeneXpert® MTB …

A Soni, B Dahiya, A Sheoran, V Kumar… - Expert Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (TB) is tedious owing to its close resemblance
with malignant pleural effusion and sparse bacterial load in clinical specimens. There is an …

Utility of Cerebrospinal Fluid Unstimulated Interferon-Gamma (IRISA-TB) as a Same-Day Test for Tuberculous Meningitis in a Tuberculosis-Endemic, Resource-Poor …

P Randall, J Mutsvangwa, M Nliwasa… - Open Forum …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) mortality is high and current diagnostics perform
suboptimally. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of a DNA-based assay (GeneXpert …

Diagnostic Performance of Unstimulated IFN-γ (IRISA-TB) for Pleural Tuberculosis: A Prospective Study in South Africa and India

DJ Christopher, A Esmail, AJ Scott… - Open Forum …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) is the most common form of extrapulmonary
tuberculosis in many settings. The diagnostic performance of the frontline polymerase chain …

Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tools and strategies for the screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis disease and infection: a scoping review

T Ockhuisen, A de Nooy, HE Jenkins… - BMJ Public …, 2024 - bmjpublichealth.bmj.com
The objective of this scoping review is to understand the cost-effectiveness of current and
future tools/strategies for screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease …

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P Randall, J Mutsvangwa, M Nliwasa, L Wilson… - 2024 - oxfordjournals.org
Background: TB meningitis mortality is high and current diagnostics perform sub-optimally.
We therefore evaluated the diagnostic performance of a DNA-based assay (GeneXpert …