Diagnostic Yield of Oral Swab Testing by TB-LAMP for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Yanhua SongYifeng MaRongmei LiuYuanyuan ShangLiping MaFengmin HuoYunxu LiWei ShuYufeng WangMengqiu GaoYu PangPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2021)
Oral swab can be used as an alternative specimen for diagnosis of pulmonary TB using TB-LAMP. Morning oral swab exhibits the highest sensitivity, and the inclusion of more specimens at different time points provides compensation in diagnostic sensitivity with single oral swab.