Feasibility and Sensitivity of Saliva GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Adults in Uganda

Author:

Byanyima Patrick1,Kaswabuli Sylvia1,Musisi Emmanuel2,Nabakiibi Catherine1,Zawedde Josephine1,Sanyu Ingvar1,Sessolo Abdul1,Andama Alfred13,Worodria William13,Huang Laurence45,Davis J. Lucian67ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

2. Division of Infection and Global Health, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom

3. Department of Internal Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

4. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

5. Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

6. Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

7. Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Abstract

Tuberculosis is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, in large part because >3 million people go undiagnosed and untreated each year. Sputum has been the mainstay for TB diagnosis for over a century but can be difficult for patients to produce.

Funder

HHS | National Institutes of Health

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

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