The Diagnostic Performance of Chest-X-Ray and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Comparison with GeneXpert® for Tuberculosis Case Notification Among Patients Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Resource-Limited Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study

摘要

For many years, chest-X-ray (CXR) has been used as a diagnostic tool to complement clinical diagnosis of bacteriologically negative tuberculosis (TB) cases. Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was also used as laboratory surrogates to augment the diagnosis of bacteriological test negative TB cases. The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of CXR and ESR in comparison with geneXpert® for TB case notification among PLHIV in a resource-limited setting.