Xpert MTB/RIF as add-on test to microscopy in a low tuberculosis incidence setting

Eur Respir J. 2018 Mar 22;51(3):1702345. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02345-2017. Print 2018 Mar.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical
  • Endoscopy
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Italy
  • Microscopy*
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Respiration Disorders
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Rifampin / therapeutic use
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Sputum
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology
  • World Health Organization

Substances

  • Rifampin