More information: David J Horne et al. Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2019).DOI: 10. ...

The Xpert MTB/RIF test identified MTB in 27 of the 34 culture confirmed cases demonstrating a sensitivity of 79.4% (95% CI 63.2 – 89.7) and 7 of 201 culture negative cases, a specificity of 96.5 ...

Tuberculosis causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide. Globally in 2017, of the estimated 10 million people with TB, 3.6 million were ...

An automated nucleic acid amplification test widely used for early detection of tuberculosis in countries where the disease is more prevalent also worked well in the United States, suggesting the ...

The Xpert MTB/RIF test improved TB diagnosis and reduced time to treatment, but not long-term TB-related morbidity, as many smear-negative patients were treated empirically.

A rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) could help to reduce TB deaths, improve TB treatment, and also offer reasonably good value for money if introduced in southern Africa, an area that has high ...

In this week's PLOS Medicine, Vinod B. Patel and colleagues used Xpert MTB/RIF, a newly available DNA test that can be used in resource-poor settings and is generally used to detect TB in sputum ...

In an HIV-positive population, the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay detected tuberculous meningitis with higher sensitivity than the older Xpert assay and a mycobacterial growth indicator tube culture ...

--Cepheid today announced that Xpert ® HIV-1 Qual XC has been awarded World Health Organization prequalification. Inclusion on the prequalification list signifies that Xpert HIV-1 Qual XC meets ...

FDA Expands Xpert MTB/RIF Test Use The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance for the Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF Assay to help determine if patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cepheid announced today that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) cleara ...

The Xpert Norovirus, as well as the recently approved Xpert Flu/RSV XC, run on the company’s GeneXpert system. The test will begin shipping this month. For more information call (888) 838-3222 ...