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Our new systematic review and meta-analysis in @TheLancetInfDis on diagnostic performance of newer skin tests for #tuberculosis infection compared to TST and IGRA: a quick tweetorial! @LeleRangaka @cdenki @McGill_TB @UCLTB @StopTB @FINDdx
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With an estimated 2 billion ppl w/ #TBinfection (TBI) worldwide, TBI screening is important for TB control - but, scalability of commonly-used TBI tests is limited (eg. high cost of IGRAs, low specificity of TST),making it a priority to evaluate the dx performance of newer tests
We included studies reporting on the performance of index tests alone or with a comparator. 37 studies were included in qualitative synthesis, (29 evaluating Diaskintest, 5 C-Tb, 2 EC-skintest, and 1 DPPD) and 22 in quantitative analyses (15 Diaskintest, 5 C-Tb, 2 EC).
