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Tuberculosis: screening, diagnosis

Australia

• Department of Health and Ageing
  • Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories [2006]

Botswana

• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Costs and Consequences of Additional Chest X-Ray in a Tuberculosis Prevention Program in Botswana [2011]

Brazil

• Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
  • Evaluation of the clinical utility of new diagnostic tests for tuberculosis: the role of pragmatic clinical trials [2012]
  • Evaluation of adenosine deaminase in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis: a Brazilian meta-analysis [2008]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Why India should become a global leader in high-quality, affordable TB diagnostics [2012]
  • Serological tests for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis: relevance for India [2012]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Active case finding in contacts of people with tuberculosis

South Africa

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Against All Odds: Diagnosing Tuberculosis in South Africa [2011]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Annals of African Medicine
  • Advances in the laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [2008]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection [2007]

United States of America

• CDC Tuberculosis (TB)
  • TB | Testing & Diagnosis

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection --- United States, 2010 [2010]
  • Recommendations for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis (TB) [2005]
  • Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC [2005]

• Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • Tuberculosis

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Updated guidelines for using interferon gamma release assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: United States 2010. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [2010]

WHO

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Quality assurance of sputum microscopy in DOTS Programmes - Guidelines for Pacific Island [2003]

• World Health Organization
  • Use of tuberculosis interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) in low- and middle-income countries : policy statement [2011]
  • Use of interferon-y release assays (IGRAs) in tuberculosis control in low- and middle-income settngs: expert group meeting report 20-21 July 2010 [2011]
  • Same-day diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
  • Guidance for countries on the specifications for managing TB laboratory equipment and supplies [2011]
  • Fluorescent light-emitting diode (LED) microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
  • Commercial serodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of tuberculosis: policy statement [2011]
  • Commercial serodiagnostic tests for diagnosis of tuberculosis: expert group meeting report 22 July 2010 [2011]

Articles in journals

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  • Tuberculosis: A Benign Impostor [2010]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Tuberculosis testing [2012]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Systematic review of cost and cost-effectiveness of different TB-screening strategies [2011]

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Time delays in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review of literature [2009]
  • Bacteriophage- based tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin clinical specimens: a systematic review and meta- analysis [2005]
  • Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2004]

• BMC Microbiology
  • In-house nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisin sputum specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression [2005]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • The impact of new tuberculosis diagnostics on transmission: why context matters [2012]
  • Can public-private collaboration promote tuberculosis case detection among the poor and vulnerable? [2006]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • Interferon-gamma-release assays: Better than tuberculin skin testing? [2010]

• Clinical and Developmental Immunology
  • Biosensing Technologies for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Detection: Status and New Developments [2011]

• Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
  • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Antigen Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis [2011]

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • New Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis: Bench, Bedside, and Beyond [2010]

• Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Resource-Poor Countries: Challenges and Opportunities [2011]
  • Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis: a Dynamic View of Biomarker Discovery [2011]

• Expert Reviews
  • IP-10 release assays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection: current status and future directions [2012]
  • TB diagnostic tests: how do we figure out their costs? [2009]
  • Light-emitting diode technologies for TB diagnosis: what is on the market? [2009]
  • Comprehensive new resource for evidence-based TB diagnosis [2009]
  • Tuberculosis diagnostics trials: do they lack methodological rigor? [2006]
  • New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part II. Active tuberculosis and drug resistance [2006]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Current tuberculosis diagnostic tools & role of urease breath test [2012]
  • Newer diagnostic techniques for tuberculosis [2004]

• International Orthopaedics
  • Microbiological diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis [2012]

• Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Role of the Clinical Mycobacteriology Laboratory in Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis in Low-Prevalence Settings [2011]
  • Does Bleach Processing Increase the Accuracy of Sputum Smear Microscopy for Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis? [2010]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Reporter Phage and Breath Tests: Emerging Phenotypic Assays for Diagnosing Active Tuberculosis, Antibiotic Resistance, and Treatment Efficacy [2011]
  • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [2011]
  • Evaluation of Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Establishing an Evidence Base Around the Public Health Impact [2011]
  • Adjunctive Tests for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Serology, ELISPOT for Site-Specific Lymphocytes, Urinary Lipoarabinomannan, String Test, and Fine Needle Aspiration [2011]

• Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Predictive value of interferon-gamma release assays for incident active tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2012]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Tumour necrosis factor a inhibitors: screening for tuberculosis infection in inflammatory bowel disease [2008]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Commercial Serological Tests for the Diagnosis of Active Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2011]
  • Serial Testing for Tuberculosis: Can We Make Sense of T Cell Assay Conversions and Reversions? [2007]
  • Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review [2007]

• PLoS ONE
  • Interferon-gamma Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Infection in HIV-Infected Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2012]
  • Within-Subject Variability of Interferon-g Assay Results for Tuberculosis and Boosting Effect of Tuberculin Skin Testing: A Systematic Review [2009]

• QJM
  • Diagnosing tuberculous pericarditis [2006]

• Respirology
  • Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis [2010]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Imaging of tuberculosis of the spine [2004]

• Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
  • What is the most accurate method for the diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis? [2010]

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