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1 CHEST -γ -γ -γ -γ 22 -γ 0.89 (95%CI ) 0.97 (95%CI ) (95%CI ) 0.11 (95%CI ) (95%CI ) -γ -γ -γ (interferon); (pleural effusion); (tuberculosis) AUC = area under the curve; CI = confidence interval; DOR = diagnostic odds ratio; IFN = interferon; NLR = negative likelihood ratio; PLR = positive likelihood ratio; QUADAS = quality assessment for studies of diagnostic accuracy; RDOR = relative diagnostic odds ratio; ROC = receiver operating characteristic; SROC = summary receiver operating characteristic; STARD = standards for reporting diagnostic accuracy; TPE = tuberculous pleural effusion 228

2 / / / 10 [1] Medline ( ) Embase ( ) Web of Science ( ) BIOSIS (1993 [2] 2006) LILACS ( ) Cochrane (TPE) tuberculosis Mycobacterium TPE 10% tuberculosis pleurisy / pleuritis pleural effusion / pleural fluid interferon / IFN sensitivity specificity accuracy [3] TPE TPE [4] (IFN) -γ TPE IFN-γ (1) [5] TPE IFN-γ TPE ( ) ( (PLR) (NLR) ) IFN-γ (DOR) 13 (2) IFN-γ 10 ( ) IFN-γ TPE IFN-γ IFN-γ TPE ( ) ( ) IFN-γ ( ) (NCET-04- (ROC) (SPSS 0835) ( ) Chicago IL) 1 (STARD 25 ) (86) (86) 771 [6] ( hzshi@vip.tom.com ) (QUADAS CHEST

3 1 / TP FP FN TN STARD QUADAS Ribera [16] / RIA 2 IU / ml Hsu [17] / ELISA 10 IU / ml Shimokata [18] / RIA Maeda [19] / ELISA 300 pg / ml Valdes [20] / ELISA 140 pg / ml Aoki [21] / ELISA 0.3 IU / ml Soderblom [22] / ELISA 1.5 pg / ml Kim [23] / RIA 9.1 IU / ml Ogawa [24] / ELISA 5 IU / ml Wongtim [25] / ELISA 240 pg / ml Villegas [26] / ELISA 6 IU / ml Yamada [27] / RIA 3.1 IU / ml Aoe [28] / ELISA 5.7 IU / ml Villena [29] / RIA 3.7 IU / ml Wong [30] / ELISA 60 pg / ml Poyraz [31] / ELISA 12 pg / ml Sharma [32] / ELISA 138 pg / ml El-Ansary [33] / ELISA 3.1 IU / ml Gao [34] / ELISA 61.7 pg / ml Okamoto [35] / ELISA 99.3 pg / ml Sharma [36] / ELISA pg / ml Morimoto [37] / ELISA 248 pg / ml ) ( version 8.2 (Stata Corporation College Station ) Texas) Meta-Test version 0.6 (New England Medical Center Boston MA) Meta-DiSc for Win- [7] (1) dows XI Cochrane Colloquium (Barcelona Spain) ( ) (2) (3) ( ) PLR NLR DOR (4) (SROC) [8, 9] IFN-γ [9, 10] SROC [11, 12] χ 2 Fisher [8] Stata 230

4 STARD QUADAS IFN-γ TPE ( ) IFN-γ [16 49] [38, 39] 2 TPE IFN-γ [40, 41] 2 TPE [42 45] 10 4 [46 49] DOR 4 (RDOR) Villena [46] [29] ( [13, 14] ) Sharma [47] Banga [32] Egger Hiraki [48, 49] Aoe [28] [15] [15 37] 22 TPE 782 TPE STARD QUADAS / / Ribera [16] / / 50 / Hsu [17] / / 20 / Shimokata [18] / / 20 / Maeda [19] / / 7 / Valdes [20] / / 110 / Aoki [21] / / 28 / Soderblom [22] / / 48 / Kim [23] / / 31 / Ogawa [24] / / 32 / Wongtim [25] / / 27 / Villegas [26] / / 79 / Yamada [27] / / 49 / Aoe [28] / / 36 / Villena [29] / / 513 / Wong [30] / / 34 / Poyraz [31] / / 30 / Sharma [32] / / 37 / El-Ansary [33] / / 24 / Gao [34] / / 49 Okamoto [35] / / 32 / Sharma [36] / / 17 / Morimoto [37] / / 46 / CHEST

5 (45.5%) 13 (59.1%) 11 (50.0%) IFN-γ 10 (63.3%) IFN-γ TPE ( %CI ) ( % CI ) PLR (95%CI ) NLR 0.11 (95% CI ) DOR (95% CI γ 504.2) PLR NLR DOR χ (P 0.001) (P = - γ 0.050) (P =0.446) (P 0.001) 0.89 (95%CI ) (P = 0.091) NLR ROC %CI 0.97 (95%CI ) 85% ( 96 (21 595) ) ROC [34] TPE SROC [22, 26] 2 IFN-γ SROC TPE Q ROC ( ) 19 SROC Q [16 21, 23 25, 27 33, 35 37] TPE ( ) SROC (Q ) 0.95 (AUC) 0.99 ( 0.98) ( )

6 ( ) ( 5%) [50 52] (24% [51, 53] 58%) [50, 52] ( ) [50] AUC =0.99 =0.98 ( ) [54] TPE γ (SROC) TPE INF-γ -12p TPE [45, 55] SROC [6] STARD Hiraki [49] ROC INF-γ 6 ( 1) QUADAS [7] TPE 1 0 (AUC 1.00) - 1 ( 1) -2 (AUC 0.99) IFN-γ TPE RDOR (AUC 0.96) -18 (AUC 0.95) 3 RDOR (AUC 0.93) -12p40 (AUC 0.87) SROC AUC / IFN-γ (Q Egger ) 0.95 AUC 0.99 (P = 0.023) [19] ( 3) IFN-γ TPE ( 0.70) ( 0.90) STARD QUADAS (n =21) TPE TPE [56] DOR CHEST

7 log DOR ( ) [59] STARD QUADAS IFN-γ TPE RDOR log DOR (STARD 13 QUADAS -γ 10) NLR ) ) SDOR / Egger (P = (DOR ( 0.023) DOR DOR 0 ( ) DOR 1 ( 5%) [50 52] 20% 40% TPE [50, 51] DOR % [50] 3wk SROC DOR [57] IFN-γ [57, 58] PLR NLR ( ( ) TPE ) [58] PLR TPE IFNγ TPE 23 TPE [60] NLR 0.11 IFN-γ TPE 10% TPE IFN-γ Greco [5] IFN-γ TPE IFN-γ

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