Fig 1.
Flow chart of the study subjects.
Table 1.
Demographical, biochemical, microbiological, clinical characteristics of study subjects along with GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay results.
Table 2.
Diagnosis of tubercular pleural effusion by GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay and composite reference standard in the study subjects (N = 158).
Table 3.
Diagnostic measures of GXpert assay in detecting tubercular pleural effusion as compared to composite reference standard (N = 158).
Table 4.
Comparison with previous studies conducted on the diagnostic utility of tuberculosis assay in detecting tubercular pleural effusion.