Effect of history of tuberculosis on specificity of Xpert MTB/RIF

Frederick Haraka; Samuel G Schumacher; Amanda Ross; Anna Mantsoki; Sebastien Gagneux; Klaus Reither; Claudia M Denkinger

doi:10.1183/13993003.00343-2020

Effect of history of tuberculosis on specificity of Xpert MTB/RIF

Eur Respir J. 2020 Sep 24;56(3):2000343. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00343-2020. Print 2020 Sep.

Authors

Frederick Haraka^{1

2

3}, Samuel G Schumacher⁴, Amanda Ross^{2

3}, Anna Mantsoki⁵, Sebastien Gagneux^{1

2

3}, Klaus Reither^{1

2

3

6}, Claudia M Denkinger^{5

7

6}

Affiliations

¹ Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
² Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
³ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland samuel.schumacher@finddx.org.
⁵ Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Equal contributions.
⁷ Division of Tropical Medicine, Center of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 32409573
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00343-2020

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Mycobacterium tuberculosis*
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sputum
Tuberculosis* / diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary* / diagnosis