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| Khan,Anwar Sheed; Ali,Sajid; Khan,Muhammad Tahir; Ahmed,Sajjad; Khattak,Yasir; Abduljabbar,; Irfan,Muhammad; Sajjad,Wasim. |
| ABSTRACT GeneXpert is one of the recent technological instruments used to diagnose tuberculosis in a short span of time. In this study, the performance of GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) was compared with light-emitting diode Fluorescent Microscopy (LED-FM) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A total of 737 EPTB samples were collected from tuberculosis (TB) suspected patients. Out of these samples, male to female ratio was 53% (n = 390) to 47% (n = 347) respectively. The sensitivity and specificity was 73% and 100% for GeneXpert, while 40% and 100% for LED-FM microscopy. This shows that the sensitivity of GeneXpert is 40–50%, higher than LED-FM microscopy. GeneXpert also detected low number of bacilli as... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: GeneXpert; LED-FM microscopy; Sensitivity; Specificity. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822018000400909 |
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