Research Article
Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the Diagnosis of Lymphatic Tuberculosis
Table 1
Characteristics of the included studies.
| Author | Year | Design | Gold standard | Results | Type of specimens | Error | TP | FP | FN | TN |
| Ligthelm et al. (a) [11] | 2011 | Retrospective | Culture | 29 | 2 | 1 | 16 | FNA | 0 | Ligthelm et al. (b) [11] | 2011 | Retrospective | CRS | 28 | 3 | 1 | 16 | FNA | 0 | Causse et al. (a) [16] | 2011 | Prospective | Culture | 16 | 0 | 1 | 70 | Tissue | 0 | Vadwai et al. (a) [32] | 2011 | Prospective | Culture | 32 | 17 | 12 | 127 | Tissue | 0 | Vadwai et al. (b) [32] | 2011 | Prospective | CRS | 49 | 1 | 17 | 122 | Tissue | 0 | Armand et al. (a) [15] | 2011 | Retrospective | Culture | 8 | 0 | 8 | 2 | Tissue | 2 | Hillemann et al. (a) [29] | 2011 | Prospective | Culture | 6 | 3 | 4 | 52 | Tissue | No data | Zeka et al. (a) [22] | 2011 | Retrospective | Culture | 11 | 2 | 3 | 10 | Tissue | 0 | Zeka et al. (b) [22] | 2011 | Retrospective | CRS | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | Tissue | 0 | Malbruny et al. (a) [27] | 2011 | Prospective | Culture | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | FNA | 0 | Moure et al. (a) [20] | 2012 | Retrospective | Culture | 24 | 0 | 10 | 4 | Tissue | 0 | Tortoli et al. (a) [14] | 2012 | Retrospective | Culture | 24 | 4 | 5 | 85 | Tissue | No data | Tortoli et al. (b) [14] | 2012 | Retrospective | CRS | 28 | 0 | 5 | 85 | Tissue | No data | Van Rie et al. (a) [17] | 2013 | Prospective | Culture | 139 | 23 | 10 | 172 | FNA | 5 | Van Rie et al. (b) [17] | 2013 | Prospective | CRS | 160 | 2 | 42 | 144 | FNA | 5 | Ablanedo-Terrazas et al. (a) [12] | 2014 | Prospective | Culture | 15 | 0 | 0 | 53 | FNA | 0 | Biadglegne et al. (a) [19] | 2014 | Prospective | Culture | 29 | 56 | 3 | 132 | FNA | 7 | Coetzee et al. (b) [28] | 2014 | Prospective | CRS | 21 | 13 | 4 | 34 | FNA | 1 | Dhasmana et al. (b) [26] | 2014 | Prospective | CRS | 24 | 3 | 12 | 77 | FNA | 0 | Scott et al. (a) [18] | 2014 | Prospective | Culture | 16 | 14 | 4 | 50 | FNA | 0 | Ghariani et al. (a) [13] | 2015 | Prospective | Culture | 126 | 8 | 18 | 22 | Tissue | 0 | Tadesse et al. (b) [24] | 2015 | Prospective | CRS | 76 | 7 | 11 | 42 | FNA | 2 | Salvador et al. (b) [21] | 2015 | Prospective | Culture | 6 | 0 | 3 | 4 | Tissue | 0 | Salvador et al. (a) [21] | 2015 | Prospective | Culture | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | FNA | 0 | Bholla et al. (b) [3] | 2016 | Prospective | CRS | 11 | 3 | 8 | 40 | FNA | 0 | Dhooria et al. (b) [30] | 2016 | Prospective | CRS | 26 | 2 | 27 | 92 | FNA | 0 | Suzana et al. (a) [31] | 2016 | Prospective | Culture | 19 | 19 | 1 | 27 | Tissue | 0 | Suzana et al. (b) [31] | 2016 | Prospective | CRS | 38 | 0 | 18 | 11 | Tissue | 0 | Nataraj et al. (a) [33] | 2016 | Prospective | Culture | 29 | 1 | 9 | 87 | FNA | 0 | Pandey et al. (b) [23] | 2016 | Prospective | Culture | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Tissue | 0 | Pandey et al. (a) [23] | 2016 | Prospective | Culture | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | FNA | 0 | Rebecca et al. (a) [8] | 2018 | Retrospective | Culture | 12 | 9 | 1 | 37 | Tissue | 0 | Perez-Risco et al. (a) [10] | 2018 | Prospective | Culture | 16 | 0 | 1 | 8 | FNA | 0 | Sarfaraz et al. (a) [9] | 2018 | Prospective | Culture | 44 | 38 | 23 | 156 | FNA | 0 | Jørstad et al. (b) [25] | 2018 | Prospective | CRS | 6 | 0 | 16 | 20 | FNA | 0 |
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