Clinicians are well versed with interpretation of smear grades and time to culture positivity in terms of patient mycobacterial burden. Low Ct values imply high bacilli load and vice versa. It offers quantitative estimation of mycobacterial load in form of cycle threshold values (Ct) which inversely correlates with the concentration of TB bacilli. Xpert is a highly sensitive TB diagnostic test with a short turnaround time. Due to these limitations, Xpert has been endorsed by World Health Organization (WHO) as the initial TB diagnostic test among HIV infected individuals. However, culture is still not readily available due to the long turnaround time that results in patient treatment delays, is prone to contamination and requires specialized infrastructure. Time to culture positivity in liquid culture system has for long been used to predict patient treatment outcomes. Smear is however less sensitive and requires high bacilli counts which are usually low among HIV-positive TB patients. Mycobacterial burden, assessed as grades of smear positivity (scanty, 1+, 2+, and 3+) is used to evaluate infectiousness of the patients and assess disease severity. Therefore, contact tracing of possible high transmitters aids early diagnosis of TB even among their susceptible contacts hence stopping continued transmission of TB from infectious cases. The control measures for TB disease without control of transmission are likely to be less effective because transmission has already occurred to many susceptible contacts by the time a case is properly diagnosed and treated. One of the WHO End TB strategies of reducing TB incidence by 80% can be achieved through early case detection. Kirenga, Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing, 2 Joanitah Nalunjogi, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 1 Ritah Bakesiima, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 1 Francis Olweny, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 1 Pastan Lusiba, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 1 Achilles Katamba, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, 1 Moses Joloba, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, 3 and Willy Ssengooba, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing 2, 3, *
If for some reason, the threshold setting is not applied to a device, then an event is raised with the appropriate details in the Events page.Irene Najjingo, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, 1, 2, * Winters Muttamba, Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing, 2 Bruce J. When a new device is added to GigaVUE‑FM, then the port utilization threshold setting is applied to the new device. Once the values are configured, you can only edit the values using the Edit option.
GigaVUE-FM allows you to create the threshold values when you first access the GigaVUE-FM instance.
FM EDITOR THRESHOLD VALUEE SOFTWARE
The configured port utilization threshold values will be applied for devices running software version 5.10 and higher. Click Apply All to apply the configuration to all the devices.
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