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Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cerebrospinal Fluid
F Pink1, T J Brown2, K Kranzer3
1Department of Infection, Barts Health, London, United Kingdom NMRL, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom frederick.pink@bartshealth.nhs.uk.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 15, 2016
Abstract:
Studies investigating Xpert MTB/RIF diagnostic performance on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples are lacking in resource-rich settings. Xpert MTB/RIF results for 740 CSF samples from 698 patients across England were retrospectively compared with the results of culture of the same and contemporary samples. The overall sensitivity was calculated at 55%.

