Past and present approaches to diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis
Date
2021-09-23
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Frontiers
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis disease continues to contribute to the mortality burden globally. Due to the several shortcomings of the available diagnostic methods, tuberculosis disease continues to spread. The difficulty to obtain sputum among the very ill patients and the children also affects the quick diagnosis of tuberculosis disease. These challenges warrant investigating different sample types that can provide results in a short time. Highlighted in this review are the approved pulmonary tuberculosis diagnostic methods and ongoing research to improve its diagnosis. We used the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews to search for studies that met the selection criteria for this review. In this review we found out that enormous biosignature research is ongoing to identify host biomarkers that can be used as predictors of active PTB disease. On top of this, more research was also being done to improve already existing diagnostic tests. Host markers required more optimization for use in different settings given their varying sensitivity and specificity in PTB endemic and non-endemic settings.
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CITATION: Namuganga, A. R., Chegou, N. N. & Mayanja-Kizza, H. 2021. Past and present approaches to diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Frontiers in Medicine, 8:709793, doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.709793.
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Keywords
Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis -- Diagnosis, Tuberculosis -- Prevention, Pulmonary tuberculosis -- Treatment
Citation
Namuganga, A. R., Chegou, N. N. & Mayanja-Kizza, H. 2021. Past and present approaches to diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Frontiers in Medicine, 8:709793, doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.709793.