Updated Recommendation
A new evidence synthesis was published:2020, WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection: web annex 2. GRADE profiles
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Recommendation
Xpert MTB/RIF may be used as a replacement test for usual practice (including conventional microscopy, culture or histopathology) for testing specific non-respiratory specimens (lymph nodes and other tissues) from patients suspected of having extrapulmonary TB
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
WHO meeting report of a technical expert consultation: non-inferiority analysis of Xpert MTB/RIF ultra compared to Xpert MTB/RIF
Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children