%0 Journal Article
%T EXPERIENCE WITH USING RAPID MOLECULAR TESTING IN DIAGNOSING PULMONARY AND EXTRA-PULMONARY PEDIATRIC TUBERCULOSIS IN A NON-ENDEMIC SETTING - A RETROSPECTIVE CASE SERIES
%J Archive of "Paediatrics & Child Health".
%D 2018
%R 10.1093/pch/pxy054.114
%X Tuberculosis (TB) is a rare but potentially devastating infection among Canadian children. Accurate diagnosis and initiation of treatment are limited in part by the fact that it takes 2¨C6 weeks for culture results to be confirmed. Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a rapid, automated molecular assay that has been validated for diagnosing pulmonary but not extra-pulmonary TB in children
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5961306/