Updated Recommendation
A new evidence synthesis was published:2024, WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis: rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection, 3rd ed.
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Recommendation
In HIV-positive adults and children with signs and symptoms of disseminated TB, Xpert MTB/RIF may be used in blood, as an initial diagnostic test for disseminated TB.
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection: web annex 2. GRADE profiles
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis: rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection, 3rd ed.
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities.
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 6: tuberculosis and comorbidities, 2nd ed.