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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
Online Report

Lessons Learned from Early Implementation and Scale-up of Stool-Based Xpert Testing to Diagnose Tuberculosis in Children

Eveline Klinkenberg1Comments to Author , Petra de Haas1, Charles Manyonge, Joanita Namutebi, Bibiche Mujangi, Hebert Mutunzi, Amri Kingalu, Nkiru Nwokoye, Kuzani Mbendera, Yohannes D. Babo, Gulmira Kalmambetova, Gunta Dravniece, Winnie Mwanza, Ahmed Bedru, Degu D. Jerene, Lisa V. Adams, Andwele Mwansasu, and Charlotte Colvin
Author affiliation: ConnectTB, the Hague, the Netherlands (E. Klinkenberg); Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (E. Klinkenberg); KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, the Hague (P. de Haas, D. D. Jerene); Supra National Reference Laboratory, Kampala, Uganda (C. Manyonge, J. Namutebi); National Reference Laboratory and National TB Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (B. Mujangi); USAID, Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance Project, Harare, Zimbabwe (H. Mutunzi); Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (A. Kingalu); KNCV Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria (N. Nwokoye); National Tuberculosis Program, Lilongwe, Malawi (K. Mbendera); KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Y.D. Babo, A. Bedru); Ministry of Health, Bishek, Kyrgyzstan (G. Kalmambetova); PATH, Kiev, Ukraine (G. Dravniece); Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia (W. Mwanza); Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (L.V. Adams); USAID Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance Project, Washington, DC, USA (A. Mwansasu); USAID Bureau for Global Health, Washington (C. Colvin); Credence Management Solutions, LLC, McLean, Virginia, USA (C. Colvin)

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Global status of implementation of stool-based testing for tuberculosis, by country, as of September 2024, according to knowledge of the authors.

Figure. Global status of implementation of stool-based testing for tuberculosis, by country, as of September 2024, according to knowledge of the authors.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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