Study	Reason for exclusion
Ali 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Atashi 2017	Adult population
Atehortúa Muñoz 2017	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Azevedo 2018	Adult population
Ballif 2015	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Banada 2016	Case‐control study
Biadglegne 2014	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Bojang 2016	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Che 2017	Adult population
Cox 2014	Adult population
Cross 2014	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Diallo 2016	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
DiNardo 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
DiNardo 2018	Index test not studied
Ejeh 2018	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Gautam 2018	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Gelalcha 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Geleta 2015	Adult population
Ghariani 2015	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Giang 2015	Unable to extract data by sample type
Guajardo‐Lara 2018	Insufficient data
Gulla 2019	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Hakim 2017	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Helb 2010	Adult population
Horo 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Huh 2014	Adult population
Kuyinu 2018	Inappropriate reference standard
Lopez 2019	Index text not studied
Lu J 2017	Screening for clinical tuberculosis before enrolment
Lu Y 2018	Adult population
Malik 2018	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Marcy 2018	Duplicate data for Marcy 2016
Masenga 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Mekonnen 2015	Adult population
Memon 2018	Clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis established at enrolment
Metaferia 2018	Inappropriate reference standard
Mijovic 2018	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Modi 2016	Index test not studied
Mulenga 2015	Index test not studied
Naidoo 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Nair 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Nansumba 2016	Index test not studied
Nataprawira 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Ncube 2017	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Nduba 2015	Index text not studied
Ngabonziza 2016	Adult population
Ntinginya 2012	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Opota 2019	Adult population
Pandey 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Pink 2016	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Planting 2014	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Raizada 2014	Inappropriate reference standard
Raizada 2015a	Inappropriate reference standard
Raizada 2015b	Inappropriate reference standard
Raizada 2018b	Inappropriate reference standard
Raizada 2018c	Inappropriate reference standard
Rathour 2019	Screening for clinical tuberculosis before enrolment
Rebecca 2018	Case‐control study
Rivera 2017	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Sabi 2016	Not a diagnotic accuracy study
Sachdeva 2015	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Sanchini 2014	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Sander 2019	Adult population
Sanjuan‐Jimenez 2015	Adult population
Schumacher 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Scott 2014	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Shah 2016a	Insufficient data
Shah 2018	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Shah 2019	Case‐control study
Sharma 2015	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Sieiro 2018	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Singh 2015	Clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis established at enrolment
Singh UB 2016	Adult population
Solomons 2016	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Sureshbabu 2016	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Tadesse 2015	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Tafur 2018	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Tang 2017	Adult population
Theron 2011	Adult population
Triasih 2015	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Ullah 2017	Unable to separate paediatric data from adult data
Walters 2012	Insufficient data
Walters 2017b	Index text not studied
Walters 2018b	Not a diagnostic accuracy study
Zhang 2016	Insufficient data