Figures & data
Figure 1. Flow diagram of the participants in included in this study. Active tuberculosis: microbiology etiological or histopathology diagnosis, clinical findings, and chest radiographic features suggestive of tuberculosis. Patients successfully treated with anti-tuberculosis therapy. Latent pulmonary tuberculosis: stable chest radiographic outcome, bacteriologically and molecular biology negative, and no clinical evidence of active tuberculosis. Patients had a history of tuberculosis infection and were cured. Nontuberculous mycobacteria: microbiological culture or molecular biological identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria. Community acquired pneumonia: etiology of M. tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria negative, exclusion of tumor, tracheobronchitis, pulmonary embolus, non-infectious pulmonary disease, and clinical findings and chest radiographic features typical community acquired pneumonia.
Table 1. Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients.
Table 2. Predefined diagnostic criteria for case definitions and categories.
Table 3. Diagnostic accuracy of commercially available probe of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens for diagnosis of active tuberculosis.
Table 4. an analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of commercially available probes for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis using Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens.
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Epidemiological, medical, and laboratory results, as well as treatment and outcome data, were acquired from hospital computerized medical records using data collecting forms. The study’s original contributions are included in the article/Supplemental Material. Further inquiries should be made to the correspondence.