{"id":6166,"date":"2020-05-28T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:35:16","slug":"can-you-please-tell-me-more-about-gene-xpert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6166","title":{"rendered":"Can you please tell me about the GeneXpert test for TB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GeneXpert is a new and better way to test for TB infection. It was approved by WHO in 2010 to be used in countries with high rates of TB.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, sputum samples needed to be looked at under \u00a0microscope. The results though were less accurate and took more time, also needing a skilled lab worker. It was less effective in people living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The GeneXpert test aims can diagnose both TB and rifampicin resistance in less than two hours. This device has high sensitivity and specificity in a variety of settings in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients.<\/p>\n<p>For more detailed technical information on GeneXpert please see this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb-south\/960\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>TB and HIV coinfection (from the i-Base training manual)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK (BHIVA) guidelines on HIV and TB coinfection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This answer was updated in May 2020 from a question from February 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the use of Gene Expert for TB diagnosis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,29,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-opportunistic-infections","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21730,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/21730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}