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Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF Test
Published on: April 9, 2012
Early chest X-ray in persons with presumptive tuberculosis increases Xpert® MTB/RIF diagnostic yield and efficiency
Z Nadiah1, R C Koesoemadinata2,3,4, S M McAllister5
1Undergraduate Programme, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
Abstract:
Adult presumptive tuberculosis (TB) patients (n = 1690) were screened for TB using a questionnaire, chest X-ray (CXR) and sputum microscopy for acid-fast bacilli (AFB); Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture was performed for 74% of the patients and Xpert® MTB/RIF was done for 17.2%. Among patients recruited, 943 (55.8%) were diagnosed with TB, of whom 870 (92.3%) were bacteriologically confirmed and 73 (7.7%) were clinically diagnosed on the basis of CXR. Using CXR prior to culture or Xpert testing reduces the number needed to screen from 7.6 to 5.0. Using CXR to triage for culture or Xpert testing reduces the number of missed cases and increases the efficiency of culture and Xpert testing.
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