Introduction
• Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in children is challenging due to the difficulty in obtaining sputum and the subjectivity of Chest X-ray interpretation.
• Therefore, most of these cases are clinically diagnosed, resulting in a
wide case detection gap. Non-sputum-based TB diagnostic tests remain a priority.
• We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of CAD4TB software and Stool
Xpert for diagnosing TB in prospectively recruited children in three West African countries