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Rational use of Xpert testing in patients with presumptive TB: clinicians should be encouraged to use the test treat threshold

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Fig. 1 Confirming and excluding power of a positive and negative Xpert test, in smear negative PLHIV with presumptive TB
Fig. 2 The effect of a negative Xpert result on post-test probability and decision to treat, applied to HIV infected patients with smear-negativepresumptive TB, in Uganda
Table 1 Categories for confirming and excluding power, andthe corresponding effect on moving toward a higher or lowerpost-test probability on the log10 odds scale
Fig. 4 Decision tree for doing an additional test, Xpert MTB/RIF, in patients with a probability of having TB above the treatment threshold

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