Bibliographic information
GuidelineWHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection: web annex 2. GRADE profiles
Year of Publication2020
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Maintained
Originally developed
In people with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB, low complexity automated NAATs may be used on sputum for the initial detection of resistance to isoniazid and fluoroquinolones, rather than culture-based phenotypic DST
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
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