7.2 Bacteriological status

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    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 a Citation 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. [1] Citation 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             .

    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.

     

    Footnotes
    • (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.
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