Fluorescence versus conventional sputum smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review.

By K. Steingart, M. Henry, Vivienne Ng, P. Hopewell, A. Ramsay, J. Cunningham, R. Urbanczik, M. Perkins, M. Aziz, Madhukar Pai. Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2006

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• International standards for tuberculosis care. (2006, result): “The specificity of fluorescence microscopy was comparable to Ziehl-Neelsen microscopy.(44) The combination of increased sensitivity with little or no loss of specificity makes fluorescence microscopy a more accurate test, although the increased cost and complexity might make it less applicable in ma”
• Mobile Phone Based Clinical Microscopy for Global Health Applications (2009, background): “Their adoption in the developing world for both diagnosis and monitoring of TB is, however, hindered by a lack of fluorescence microscopy equipment [2,6,14] generally due to the cost of the equipment and cost of maintenance.”
• Miniaturized integration of a fluorescence microscope (2011, background): “Using auramine-O, a fluorescent marker of tuberculosis bacteri”
• The immune response in tuberculosis. (2013, neutral): “tuberculosis and nontubercular mycobacteria (31).”
• Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children (2017, background): “Concentrated specimens have a mean increase in sensitivity of 18% compared with nonconcentrated specimens (using culture as the standard) and fluorescence microscopy is on average 10% more sensitive than conventional microscopy [128, 129].”