Assessing the utility of Truenat in extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis – A NRL’s experience

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Rajendran, Priya and Jayabal, Lavanya and Venkatesan, Mythily and Prem Kumar, Michel and Ramalingam, Radhakrishnan and Sivaraman, P and Fredrick, Asha and Shanmugam, Sivakumar (2024) Assessing the utility of Truenat in extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis – A NRL’s experience. Assessing the utility of Truenat in extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis – A NRL’s experience, 35 (100420).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2024.100420

Abstract

Diagnosis of extra pulmonary TB (EPTB) remains a big challenge. While data on utility of Xpert testing in EPTB diagnosis is enormous, there is limited data on Truenat MTB testing. In this study we aimed to evaluate the usefulness of Truenat in EPTB diagnosis. The study included patients suspected and/or treated for EPTB located from Chennai district during the year 2021–2022. All processed EPTB samples were subjected to smear microscopy, culture and Truenat MTB testing.

Affiliation:	ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis
Item Type:	Article
URI:	http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/2143

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