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Genotyping of mutations detected with GeneXpert
International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2016 Tuberculosis remains an important cause of mortality worldwide. Previous tuberculosis treatment is a strong determinant of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The study objective was to describe the mutations detected of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex clinical strains screened with GeneXpert isolated from previously treated patients in Côte d ...
N'guessan Kouassi, K. +8 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2021 Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious health problem in middle-income and low-income countries and needs rapid diagnosis and treatment. Xpert MTB/RIF assay provides early results by simultaneous detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and ...
Hisham E.S Abd El Aaty +2 more
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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Background: The rollout of GeneXpert aimed at increasing early diagnosis of tuberculosis to improve treatment outcomes and global tuberculosis targets.
Victor Williams +7 more
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Using cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis with GeneXpert [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2014 To the Editor: We read with interest the systematic review by C. Denkinger and co-workers on the use of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for diagnosing extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) [1], particularly in light of World Health Organization (WHO) endorsement of Xpert MTB/RIF and its recent policy statement on extrapulmonary TB [1–3]. Given the severe clinical
Robert F, Luo +2 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2020 Background Pleural effusion caused by tuberculosis (TB) is a common form of extrapulmonary TB. It is usually cause by delayed hypersensitivity to antigens of tubercle bacilli in pleura. It is found that it occurs more in patients with HIV.
Mona Mansour Ahmed +3 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2021 Context GeneXpert MTB/RIF (GX) has an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and predicts the infectiousness of the patient through the threshold cycle (Ct) value. Aims To compare the performance of the Xpert MTB/RIF
Magdy M Khalil +2 more
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The Role of Genexpert in the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Advances in Respiratory Medicine, 2019 Introduction: GeneXpert (GX) is a novel, integrated, cartridge-based, nucleic acid amplification test with an established role for rapid diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and detection of rifampicin resistance. Aim: To evaluate the role of GX in pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases.
Sasikumar, Chinnu +3 more
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Multicenter Beta Trial of the GeneXpert Enterovirus Assay [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2007 ABSTRACT The GeneXpert Dx system (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA) is a fully integrated and automated nucleic acid sample preparation, amplification, and real-time detection system. It consists of an instrument, a personal computer, and disposable fluidic cartridges. The analytical sensitivity and specificity of the GeneXpert enterovirus assay (GXEA)
Christine B, Kost +9 more
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Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2016 Goal of the study: to compare efficiency of anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy prescribed basing on drug susceptibility testing results obtained by GeneXpertMTB/RIF with relevant correction as per data of culture on liquid media and basing on drug ...
A. G. Samoylova +4 more
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Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2020 Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the utility of Xpert assay, Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN) staining, and Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT™) culture for diagnosis of pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis from gastric aspirate (GA) samples and to ...
Shiwangi Sharma +5 more
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