Sputum processing methods to improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review.
By K. Steingart, Vivienne Ng, M. Henry, P. Hopewell, A. Ramsay, J. Cunningham, R. Urbanczik, M. Perkins, M. Aziz, Madhukar Pai. Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2006
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Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases
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- 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].”
- HIV and Tuberculosis: a Deadly Human Syndemic (2011, background): “Due to operator dependence on sample collection and processing and interpretation of sputum smears, the sensitivity of the sputum smear ranges from 20% to 60% in resource-constrained settings (37, 217, 236).”
- Point-of-care diagnostics for global health. (2008, background): “Other major challenges in sputum smear microscopy are specimen collection and processing, both of which largely impact the sensitivity (48).”