Table 3. Rapid test results at days 0 and 14 of treatment.
| PROTOLAM | TB-ST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total N tested | Total positives day 0 | Total positives day 14 | N of patients with changed grade day 0-day 14 | Total positives day 0 | Total positives day 14 | N of patients with changed grade day 0-day14* | ||
| Culture/GeneXpert+ | total | 22 | 13 | 12 | 3* | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| sm+ | 16 | 10 | 9 | 3*; 1pt w to neg | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2pt p to w | ||||||||
| sm- | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Culture/GeneXpert- | sm- | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bands were graded as strongly positive, positive (p), weakly positive (w), or negative (neg). No changes in band intensity between day 0 and 14 were identified for the TB-ST, and only 3 in the PROTOLAM test.
* indicates numbers of patients (pt) with a difference in band intensity between day 0 to day 14.