Tirça Naiara da Silva Iúdice, Marília Lima da Conceição, Artemir Coelho de Brito, Nicole Menezes de Souza, Cristal Ribeiro Mesquita, Ricardo José de Paula Souza E Guimarães, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Alessandra de Souza Saboia, Maria Cristina da Silva Lourenço, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Emilyn Costa Conceição
The rapid molecular test (RMT) performed on the GeneXpert® system is widely used as a control strategy and surveillance technique for tuberculosis (TB). In the region of the Americas, TB incidence is slowly increasing owing to an upward trend in Brazil, which is among the high TB-burden countries (HBCs), ranking in the 19th position. In this context, we aimed to (i) describe the implementation and history of RMT-TB (Xpert® MTB/RIF and Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra) in Brazil; (ii) to evaluate the national RMT laboratory distribution, TB, and resistance to RIF detection by RMT; and (iii) to correlate these data with Brazilian TB incidence...
October 26, 2023: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease