Internal medicine

Pathology

Pediatrics

Chlamydia trachomatis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Meta-analysis

Virology

Pulmonary tuberculosis

Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests

Diagnostic accuracy

Medicine

Diagnostic test

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Invasive collection methods are often required to obtain samples for the microbiological evaluation of children with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Nucleic acid amplification testing of easier-to-collect stool samples could be a noninvasive method of diagnosing PTB.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Stool Xpert MTB/RIF for Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Children: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis