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Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF Test
Published on: April 9, 2012
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Comparison between Xpert ultra and standard M10 for detection of MTBC in clinical samples
Laura Rindi1, Vincenzo Puglisi2, Iacopo Franconi1
1Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Mycology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|September 12, 2025
Abstract:
This study compared the STANDARD M10 MDR-TB with GeneXpert® MTB/RIF Ultra test in detecting tuberculosis on 57 samples. Sensitivity and specificity were 92 % and 100 % with a positive predictive value of 100 % with a substantial agreement (0.74) at Kappa agreement test.

