The impact of repeated NALC/NaOH- decontamination on the performance of Xpert MTB/RIF assay

Andrea Rachow; Elmar Saathoff; Bariki Mtafya; Daniel Mapamba; Chacha Mangu; Gabriel Rojas-Ponce; Nyanda E. Ntinginya; Martin Boeree; Norbert Heinrich; Stephen H. Gillespie; Michael Hoelscher; PanACEA Consortium

doi:10.1016/j.tube.2018.04.001

The impact of repeated NALC/NaOH- decontamination on the performance of Xpert MTB/RIF assay

Andrea Rachow, Elmar Saathoff, Bariki Mtafya, Daniel Mapamba, Chacha Mangu, Gabriel Rojas-Ponce, Nyanda E. Ntinginya, Martin Boeree, Norbert Heinrich, Stephen H. Gillespie, Michael Hoelscher, PanACEA Consortium

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The Xpert MTB/RIF assay detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis in unprocessed or NALC/NaOH- decontaminated sputum. The effect of repeated NALC/NaOH-decontamination on several Xpert performance parameters was assessed in this study. A second NALC/NaOH-decontamination had no effect on the binary Xpert-outcome but increased the value for the quantitative readout (C_Tmin). Repeated decontamination was not associated with PCR-inhibition or invalid results. The C_Tmin of M.tb positive samples was higher in inhibited Xpert runs. Our data indicate that NALC/NaOH-decontamination has an effect on the performance of the Xpert assay, and that C_Tmin readouts of decontaminated sputum samples should be interpreted with caution.

Original language	English
Journal	Tuberculosis
Volume	In press
Early online date	4 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2018.04.001
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 4 Apr 2018

Keywords

Xpert-inhibition
Sputum processing
Quantitative PCR
Xpert-performance

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Rachow, A., Saathoff, E., Mtafya, B., Mapamba, D., Mangu, C., Rojas-Ponce, G., Ntinginya, N. E., Boeree, M., Heinrich, N., Gillespie, S. H., Hoelscher, M., & PanACEA Consortium (2018). The impact of repeated NALC/NaOH- decontamination on the performance of Xpert MTB/RIF assay. Tuberculosis, In press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tube.2018.04.001

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The impact of repeated NALC/NaOH- decontamination on the performance of Xpert MTB/RIF assay

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