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Xpert MTB/RIF Implementation Manual: Technical and Operational ‘How-To’; Practical Considerations. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014.

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AFB: acid-fast bacilli
CFU: colony-forming unit
CI: confidence interval
CrI: credible interval
CRS: composite reference standard
CSF: cerebrospinal fluid
DR-TB: drug-resistant TB
DST: drug-susceptibility testing
FIND: Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
GRADE: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation
LED: light emitting diode
LPA: line probe assay
MDR-TB: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
MGIT: mycobacterial growth indicator tube
NPV: negative predictive value
NTM: non-tuberculous mycobacteria
NTP: National Tuberculosis Programme
PCR: polymerase chain reaction
PEPFAR: United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
PPV: positive predictive value
RRDR: Rifampicin Resistance Determining Region
rpoB: gene encoding for the ß-subunit of the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
RR-TB: rifampicin-resistant TB
STAG-TB: Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB
USAID: United States Agency for International Development
UNITAID: Innovative Financing to Shape Markets for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
WHO: World Health Organization
XDR-TB: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

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Abbreviations - Xpert MTB/RIF Implementation Manual
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C-terminal-binding protein 1 isoform X8 [Strigops habroptila]
C-terminal-binding protein 1 isoform X8 [Strigops habroptila]
gi|1728956032|ref|XP_030349052.1|
Protein
C-terminal-binding protein 1 isoform X7 [Strigops habroptila]
C-terminal-binding protein 1 isoform X7 [Strigops habroptila]
gi|1728956020|ref|XP_030349045.1|
Protein
PREDICTED: Strigops habroptila C-terminal binding protein 1 (CTBP1), transcript ...
PREDICTED: Strigops habroptila C-terminal binding protein 1 (CTBP1), transcript variant X3, mRNA
gi|1728956007|ref|XM_030493179.1|
Nucleotide
NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (mitochondrion) [Monoblepharella sp. JEL15]
NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (mitochondrion) [Monoblepharella sp. JEL15]
gi|29126618|ref|NP_803521.1|
Protein

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