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Concentrated smear detected AFB in 4 samples which were direct smear negative; the sensitivity of concentrated smear was 42.8% and of direct smear was 32.1%.

First, our reported 52% sensitivity of concentrated smear is similar to that in previous studies of HIV-infected individuals (i.e., 50% [ 37], 52% [ 38], and 54% [ 39]), suggesting that the discrepancy in findings may reflect higher sensitivity of direct microscopy in the present study, rather than higher sensitivity of concentrated microscopy in other studies.

It was estimated that the sensitivity of concentrated FM and magnetic bead were similar and the study was not powered to detect a small difference in sensitivity between these methods.

We assumed that 80% of enrolled participants would truly have tuberculosis [ 20- 27], that 50% would be HIV-infected [ 28, 29], and that the sensitivity of un-concentrated AFB smear for pulmonary TB was 38% in HIV-uninfected persons and 29% in HIV-infected persons (respective sensitivities of 50% and 38% were assumed for concentrated smears).

This imperfect blinding is known to influence the results of sputum smear microscopy [ 36] and would be expected to inflate measured sensitivity for concentrated smear.

The concentrations of the atomized solutions were adjusted to match the sensitivity of the instrument less concentrated solutions were used for succinic acid and oxalic acid due to high sensitivity of the CIMS to these compounds (see Tables S1 S4).

The sensitivity of direct and concentrated smear microscopy was not significantly different (51% vs. 52%, difference 1%, 95% confidence interval (CI): [-7%, 10%], p = 0.88).

IQR, interquartile range As shown in Table 2, the sensitivity of direct and concentrated smear microscopy was similar when using any positive culture result as the gold standard (51% vs. 52%, difference 1%, 95% confidence interval: [-7%, 10%], p = 0.88).

Given the similar sensitivity of direct and concentrated smear microscopy also observed in our study, future studies should investigate whether performing multiple direct smears on a single specimen can substantially increase sensitivity for TB, avoiding the need for multiple patient visits.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01695.010 We next characterized the sensitivity of the anti-Endos phosphatase in concentrated extracts (from Xenopus eggs and human, fly, or mouse tissue culture cells) to common phosphatase inhibitors.