Diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra and culture assays to detect Mycobacterium Tuberculosis using OMNIgene-sputum processed stool among adult TB presumptive patients in Uganda

• Abdulwahab Sessolo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abdulwahab Sessolo, Emmanuel Musisi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: asessolo@idrc-uganda.org

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1793-5251

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• Emmanuel Musisi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abdulwahab Sessolo, Emmanuel Musisi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infection and Global Health, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Sylvia Kaswabuli,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Josephine Zawedde,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Patrick Byanyima,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Wilber Sabiiti,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Global Health, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4742-2791

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• Stanley Walimbwa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation China Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru, Kampala, Uganda

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• Joseph Ola,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation China Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ingvar Sanyu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rejani Lalitha,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-9879

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• Moses Kamya,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Lucian Davis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8629-9992

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• William Worodria,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Laurence Huang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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