Bibliographic Info
GuidelineWHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 3: diagnosis – rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection: web annex 2. GRADE profiles
Year of Publication2020
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
In people with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB and resistance to rifampicin, low complexity automated NAATs may be used on sputum for the initial detection of resistance to ethionamide, rather than DNA sequencing of the inhA promoter
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