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Sven O Friedrich1, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Andreas H Diacon.
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We prospectively investigated the diagnostic utility of the Xpert MTB/RIF (Mycobacterium tuberculosis/rifampin [RIF] resistance) assay in 20 cases with confirmed tuberculous pleural effusion. The sensitivity and specificity of the Xpert assay in pleural fluid were 25% and 100%, respectively. All cases positive by the Xpert assay were also positive by pleural fluid culture.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21998430 PMCID: PMC3232996 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05454-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948