New Diagnostics for Latent and Active Tuberculosis: State of the Art and Future Prospects

Systematic Review: T-Cell–based Assays for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: An Update

2008 • 1,297 citations

Meta-analysis: New Tests for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Areas of Uncertainty and Recommendations for Research

2007 • 983 citations

Fluorescence versus conventional sputum smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review

2006 • 756 citations

Sputum processing methods to improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy for tuberculosis: a systematic review

2006 • 554 citations

Microscopic-Observation Drug-Susceptibility Assay for the Diagnosis of TB

2006 • 477 citations

Rapid Molecular Screening for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in a High-Volume Public Health Laboratory in South Africa

2008 • 406 citations

WHO's new Stop TB Strategy

2006 • 397 citations

Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2003 • 372 citations

GenoType MTBDR assays for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a meta-analysis

2008 • 341 citations

Operational Feasibility of Using Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Microscopy Centers of Developing Countries

2007 • 334 citations

Facing the Crisis: Improving the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in the HIV Era

2007 • 297 citations

Meta-Analysis of BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 TB, with or without Solid Media, for Detection of Mycobacteria

2004 • 280 citations

Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2004 • 243 citations

Commercial Serological Antibody Detection Tests for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review

2007 • 240 citations

Reducing the global burden of tuberculosis: the contribution of improved diagnostics

2006 • 237 citations

New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part I. Latent tuberculosis

2006 • 236 citations

Yield of serial sputum specimen examinations in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review.

2007 • 227 citations

Commercial Nucleic-Acid Amplification Tests for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Respiratory Specimens: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression

2008 • 216 citations

Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis

2006 • 214 citations

New tools and emerging technologies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis: Part II. Active tuberculosis and drug resistance

2006 • 205 citations

In-house nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression

2005 • 183 citations

The prognosis of latent tuberculosis: can disease be predicted?

2007 • 181 citations

T-cell assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: moving the research agenda forward

2007 • 173 citations

Current evidence on diagnostic accuracy of commercially based nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

2006 • 164 citations

Detection of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan with an antigen-capture ELISA in unprocessed urine of Tanzanian patients with suspected tuberculosis

2005 • 161 citations

Use of Light‐Emitting Diode Fluorescence Microscopy to Detect Acid‐Fast Bacilli in Sputum

2008 • 159 citations

Optimizing sputum smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

2007 • 155 citations

A systematic review of commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis

2007 • 155 citations

Technology for Automated, Rapid, and Quantitative PCR or Reverse Transcription-PCR Clinical Testing

2005 • 132 citations

Progress towards improved tuberculosis diagnostics for developing countries

2006 • 131 citations

Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis

2008 • 103 citations

Bacteriophage-based assays for the rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a meta-analysis

2005 • 95 citations

Bacteriophage- based tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens: a systematic review and meta- analysis

2005 • 82 citations

Diagnostic Evaluation of Urinary Lipoarabinomannan at an Ethiopian Tuberculosis Centre

2001 • 76 citations

PrimaTB STAT-PAK Assay, a Novel, Rapid Lateral-Flow Test for Tuberculosis in Nonhuman Primates

2007 • 64 citations

Nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis: a systematic review.

2007 • 64 citations

Light emitting diodes for auramine O fluorescence microscopic screening of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

2006 • 54 citations

Double-blind randomized Phase I study comparing rdESAT-6 to tuberculin as skin test reagent in the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection

2008 • 53 citations