Validación e implementación de GeneXpert MTB/RIF para diagnóstico de tuberculosis en Ecuador

• Main Authors: Ortiz-Jiménez, José Marcelo, Franco-Sotomayor Greta, Ramos-Ramírez Martha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2019
• Subjects: Validation studies; sputum; sensitivity; specificity; rifampin; Estudios de validación; esputo; sensibilidad; especificidad; rifampicina; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Guayaquil; Referencia; Rif
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b71c05a5d85642b6a72f2f209b34d12d

Abstract: The objective of the study was the validation and implementation of GeneXpert MTB/RIF for routine use in the rapid detection of tuberculosis and sensitivity to rifampicin in clinical samples; for this, 1592 respiratory samples were collected and analyzed in the laboratory of Instituto Naci...