Routine using pattern and performance of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis on a university hospital

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Devrim DundarVolkan Dundar

Abstract

Nucleic acid amplification tests to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens are used increasingly as a laboratory tool. We aimed to investigate the routine using pattern and the effects on therapeutic decision of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in our hospital. In this descriptive study, we investigated retrospectively the routine using pattern and the effects on therapeutic decision of diagnostic tests for tuberculosis. Patients with discordant results were clinically evaluated retrospectively by a chest physician. Samples were tested for the presence of M. tuberculosis by a smear technique, M. tuberculosis culture growth technique (Löwenstein-Jensen and/or BACTEC-960), and IS6110 polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Culture positivity was 7.2% (83 of 1159 patients). In total, 198 (62.4%) were tested with PCR, acid-fast bacilli, and culture. On the basis of culture results as a gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of PCR were 46%, 89%, 23%, and 93.5%, respectively. Selection of appropriate patients for further testing and exclusion of low-risk patients from microbiologic testing by experienced clinicians may help to optimize the positive predictive valu...Continue Reading

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