Wei, Jian-Hao
Qian, Xue-Qin
Wan, Yan-Min
Zhao, Xiao-Kai
Zhang, Chun-Yan
Guo, Wei
Zhu, Zhao-Qin
Article History
Received: 8 January 2024
Accepted: 29 July 2024
First Online: 1 August 2024
Declarations
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: The study received ethical and regulatory approval from the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (Ethical approval number: 2018-S037-02). In the retrospective study analyzing unsuccessful tests in the GeneXpert and GeneXpert MTB/RIF Ultra assays, we used secondary data without recording any personal identifiers on the data collection sheet. The secured data from participant records were only accessible to the listed authors. The patient’s informed consent was not required. In the experiment involving prolonged preprocessing tests, written informed consent was obtained from the recruited participants or their parental guardians (for participants under 15 years old) who provided the clinical information and sputum samples. The study was conducted in compliance with the data security requirements of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.