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## Background An effective tuberculosis (TB) control programme requires early diagnosis and immediate initiation of treatment. Any delays in diagnosing TB not only impair a patient's prognosis, but also increase the risks of transmitting the disease within the community. Unfortunately, the most recent TB diagnostic tools still depend on high‐infrastructure laboratories, making them poorly adapted for use in resource‐limited settings. Additionally, existing tests show poor performance in diagnosing TB in children, people living with HIV/AIDS, and extrapulmonary forms of the disease. As a consequence, TB patients are still to date left with either __fair__ access to __poor__ diagnostics or __poor__ access to __fair__ diagnostics. ## Discussion This article discusses recent efforts to identify the minimal test specifications for a new TB point‐of‐care diagnostic test through an approach based on medical and patient needs. As a first step, survey interviews with field practitioners were designed in order to identify the top‐priority medical needs in resource‐limited settings concerning new TB diagnostics. Subsequently, an expert meeting convening field practitioners, laboratory experts

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Author

Jean-François Lemaire; Martina Casenghi

Publisher

BioMed Central; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley and Sons Inc.; London: BioMed Central, 2008-2012; Geneva: International AIDS Society, 2012-; Wiley; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; International AIDS Society (ISSN 1758-2652)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)