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The EPiTB project aims to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in Africa, particularly for extrapulmonary cases. It will evaluate a new low-cost diagnostic test, IRISA-TB, through a large-scale study to enhance TB control and facilitate its adoption into clinical practice.
Better diagnostic approaches are required to improve TB control in Africa, which is suboptimal.
One neglected aspect of TB diagnosis is that of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB), which comprises ~15% of the TB caseload.
However, in HIV-endemic settings over one third of cases are due to EPTB (the most common manifestation being pleural TB).
Frontline same day sputum-based diagnostic tools such as GeneXpert perform poorly when using fluid derived from EPTB-specific compartments (e.g. pleural fluid).
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Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands, Leiden
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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