“…Sharma (New Delhi, India) described that Xpert has 77.7% sensitivity for smear negative and culture positive TB in comparison to 99.2% for smear and culture positive TB [28]. In the study of Mohanty (Cuttack, India)(April 2016 to March 2017), with culture as gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value(PPV) and negative predictive value(NPV) of sputum induction CBNAAT were 61.9%, 96.5%, 96.3%, 63.6%, respectively and of BAL CBNAAT were 88.09%, 96.5%, 97.36%, 84.84%, respectively [29]. Agrawal (Delhi, India, Jan 2015 to Nov 2015) demonstrated that using culture as reference, sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV of CBNAAT were 86.8%, 93.1%, 78.5% and 96% respectively [19].…”