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Access the Diagnostic Accuracy of GeneXpert to Detect <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> and Rifampicin-Resistance Tuberculosis among Presumptive Tuberculosis and Presumptive Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients
2023-10-30
Abstract excerpt
Xpert MTB/RIF is rapid molecular diagnostic tool capable of simultaneously detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance. This study aimed to access the diagnostic precision of Xpert MTB/RIF assay to detect pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and to evaluate the performance for the detection of rifampicin resistance. Of 37695 samples, 7156(18.98%) were tuberculosis positive, 509(7.11%) were...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5e044498-4f48-5417-8848-13b4a3ad4ae1
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202310.1916.v1
