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J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis
; 21: 100198, 2020 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33204853
ABSTRACT
â¢CB-NAAT performance compared in 831 suspected pulmonary and extrapulmonary suspected cases.â¢The conventional stained smear and CB-NAAT results were compared to the MGIT culture.â¢Sensitivity and specificity of CB-NAAT was 84.43% and 94.93%.â¢The rapid results from CB-NAAT confirms its use in the tuberculosis diagnostic algorithm.â¢The benefits of disease diagnosis and prevention outweighs the price tag of the CB-NAAT tests.â¢This is more so for the resource poor countries where the burden of the disease is high.