A prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study for the Truenat tuberculosis assays.

Adam Penn-NicholsonSivaramakrishnan N GomathiCesar Ugarte-GilAbyot MeazaEvelyn LavuPranav PatelBandana ChoudhuryCamilla RodriguesSarabjit ChadhaMubin KaziAurélien MacéPamela NabetaCatharina BoehmeRaman R GangakhedkarSanjay SarinEphrem TesfayeEduardo GotuzzoPhilipp du CrosSrikanth TripathyMorten RuhwaldManjula SinghClaudia M DenkingerSamuel G Schumachernull nullnull null

Published in: The European respiratory journal (2021)

We found the performance of Molbio's Truenat MTB, MTB Plus and MTB-RIF Dx assays to be comparable to that of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay. Performing the Truenat tests in primary healthcare centres with very limited infrastructure was feasible. These data supported the development of a World Health Organization policy recommendation of the Molbio assays.

Keyphrases

pulmonary tuberculosis
mycobacterium tuberculosis
high throughput
healthcare
public health
electronic health record
study protocol
randomized controlled trial
mental health
single cell
social media
data analysis
drug induced