المحتويات
Confirmed TB case
- Patient with a positive bacteriological test (molecular test, microscopy or culture) result.
- HIV-infected patient with a positive lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan assay (LF-LAM) result
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Citation
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LF-LAM is not a bacteriological test, but a biomarker detection test. However, WHO recommends recording patients with positive LF-LAM as bacteriologically confirmed TB cases.
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Citation
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World Health Organization. Definitions and reporting framework for tuberculosis – 2013 revision (updated December 2014 and January 2020). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/79199/9789241505345_eng.pdf .
Non-confirmed TB case
Patient who does not meet criteria for confirmed TB case, and for whom a clinician has decided to prescribe a full course of TB treatment.
الهوامش
- (a)LF-LAM is not a bacteriological test, but a biomarker detection test. However, WHO recommends recording patients with positive LF-LAM as bacteriologically confirmed TB cases.
المراجع
- 1.World Health Organization. Definitions and reporting framework for tuberculosis – 2013 revision (updated December 2014 and January 2020). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/79199/9789241505345_eng.pdf