Editing Tuberculosis (section)

=== Other tests ===
[[Nucleic acid amplification test]]s (NAAT) and [[adenosine deaminase]] testing may allow rapid diagnosis of TB.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bento J, Silva AS, Rodrigues F, Duarte R |date=2011 |title=[Diagnostic tools in tuberculosis] |journal=Acta Médica Portuguesa |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=145–54 |doi=10.20344/amp.333 |pmid=21672452 |s2cid=76156550 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="CDC_Xpert_2024" /> In December 2010, the World Health Organization endorsed the Xpert MTB/RIF system (a NAAT) for diagnosis of tuberculosis in endemic countries.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101210115147/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/tb_test_20101208/en/index.html "WHO endorses new rapid tuberculosis test"] 8 December 2010. Retrieved on 12 June 2012</ref>

Blood tests to detect antibodies are not [[sensitivity and specificity|specific or sensitive]], so they are not recommended.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Steingart KR, Flores LL, Dendukuri N, Schiller I, Laal S, Ramsay A, Hopewell PC, Pai M |date=August 2011 |title=Commercial serological tests for the diagnosis of active pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis |journal=PLOS Medicine |volume=8 |issue=8 |page=e1001062 |doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001062 |pmc=3153457 |pmid=21857806 |doi-access=free |veditors=Evans C}}</ref>

[[Polymerase chain reaction|PCR]] testing for ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' is often required for the diagnosis of [[urogenital tuberculosis]] and may also be used to diagnose tuberculosis in other tissues. It is highly sensitive and specific with good turnaround time.<ref name="Figueiredo-2017" />