Diagnostics (TB)

Appropriate Use of Rapid Tests for Tuberculosis

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 23rd, 1997

Direct application tests (DAT) at present add to, but do not replace, existing diagnostic measures that assist in TB treatment and control.

Participants at an American Thoracic Society (ATS) workshop on rapid diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) commented that "judicious use [of the DAT] can expedite TB control activities in certain circumstances."

Reporting in the May 1997 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Antonio Catanzaro, M.D., Workshop Chair, together with 28 conference faculty reported that two DAT recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are significantly more sensitive than the...

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