Time delays in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review of literature

CT Sreeramareddy, KV Panduru, J Menten… - BMC infectious …, 2009 - Springer
… Our systematic review of literature of 52 studies on delays in diagnosis of tuberculosis … the
onset of symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis and diagnosis. However comparison of these (…

Systematic review and meta-analysis of antigen detection tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis

LL Flores, KR Steingart, N Dendukuri… - Clinical and Vaccine …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The objective of the current systematic review is to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of antigen
detection tests using different clinical specimens for PTB and EPTB in adults and children …

A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection

J Dinnes, J Deeks, H Kunst, A Gibson… - Health technology …, 2007 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
… To conduct a systematic review to evaluate how effective fully automated liquid culture systems
… a systematic review to evaluate the use of interferon- assays for detection of latent TB

A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

DG Storla, S Yimer, GA Bjune - BMC public health, 2008 - Springer
… first contact and diagnosis is crucial to combatting the increasing TB epidemic. Although
there are multiple studies of delayed TB diagnosis, no one has performed a systematic review. …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of clinical diagnostic systems used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children

EC Pearce, JF Woodward, WM Nyandiko… - AIDS research and …, 2012 - hindawi.com
… This systematic review seeks to systematically identify, review, and compare various methods
of diagnosis … It aims to organize the scoring systems and diagnostic criteria based on their …

Diagnosis of tuberculosis through breath test: a systematic review

AMI Saktiawati, DD Putera, A Setyawan… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
diagnose tuberculosis (TB) through detecting specific volatile organic compounds produced
by Mycobacterium tuberculosis … that breath tests can diagnose TB accurately, however, to …

Diagnosis of tuberculosis in wildlife: a systematic review

J Thomas, A Balseiro, C Gortázar, MA Risalde - Veterinary Research, 2021 - Springer
… for systematic review reporting [31]. The research question was: which are the studies available
for diagnosis of … The reports obtained for this systematic review were subjected to three …

The impact of sputum quality on tuberculosis diagnosis: a systematic review

J Ho, GB Marks, GJ Fox - … International Journal of Tuberculosis …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
… In this systematic review, we assess two closely related issues: how the quality of … yield of
TB diagnostic tests, and how pre-sputum collection interventions affects diagnostic yield. Our …

Diagnostic accuracy of chest radiography for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and its role in the detection of latent TB infection: a systematic review

R Piccazzo, F Paparo, G Garlaschi - The Journal of Rheumatology …, 2014 - jrheum.org
… In this systematic review we evaluate the role of chest radiography (CXR) in the diagnostic
flow chart for tuberculosis (… This systematic review focuses on the role and value of CXR in TB …

Interferon-γ assays in the immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: a systematic review

M Pai, LW Riley, JM Colford - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2004 - thelancet.com
… We did a systematic review to assess the performance of interferon-γ assays in the … (TST)
to diagnose latent tuberculosis. First introduced in 1890, it is the oldest diagnostic test in use. …