Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test

Rapid progress has been made in the development of new diagnostic assays for tuberculosis in recent years. New technologies have been developed and assessed, and are now being implemented. The Xpert MTB/RIF assay, which enables simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and rifampici...

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Published in:	The Lancet infectious diseases Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 349 - 361
Main Authors:	Lawn, Stephen D, Mwaba, Peter, Bates, Matthew, Piatek, Amy, Alexander, Heather, Marais, Ben J, Cuevas, Luis E, McHugh, Timothy D, Zijenah, Lynn, Kapata, Nathan, Abubakar, Ibrahim, McNerney, Ruth, Hoelscher, Michael, Memish, Ziad A, Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Kim, Peter, Maeurer, Markus, Schito, Marco, Zumla, Alimuddin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2013 Lancet Publishing Group Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - diagnosis AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - microbiology Antibiotics, Antitubercular Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Cost of Illness Cost-Benefit Analysis Drug Resistance, Bacterial Global Health Health Care Costs Human bacterial diseases Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infectious Disease Infectious diseases Medical sciences Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques Point-of-Care Systems - trends Predictive Value of Tests Rifampin Sputum - microbiology Tuberculosis Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - drug therapy Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - mortality Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Infection Bacteriosis Tuberculosis Mycobacterial infection Diagnosis
ISSN:	1473-3099, 1474-4457, 1474-4457
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