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Begg\u2019s funnel plots were used to assess publication bias in the meta-analysis of the diagnostic studies, and statistical analyses were performed by using Stata (Version 12) software.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 12 blood and\/or CSF IGRA studies were included in this meta-analysis, with 376 patients and 493 controls. The sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, negative likelihood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and area under the summary receiver operating characteristic curve (SROC) of the blood IGRAs in the pooled data from 12 studies were 74% (95% CI: 0.65-0.82), 78% (95% CI: 0.68-0.86), 3.38 (95% CI 2.26-5.06), 0.33 (95% CI: 0.23-0.46), 10.25 (95% CI: 5.46-19.25), and 0.83 (95% CI: 0.79-0.86), respectively. For CSF IGRAs, these values for the pooled data from the 10 studies included were 79% (95% CI: 0.71-0.85), 95% (95% CI: 0.88-0.98), 16.30 (95% CI 6.5-40.83), 0.22 (95% CI: 0.16-0.31), 57.93 (95% CI: 22.56-148.78), and 0.91 (95% CI: 0.88-0.93), respectively.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>CSF IGRAs exhibited a better diagnostic accuracy than blood IGRAs in diagnosing TBM.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2022.788692","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,22]],"date-time":"2022-04-22T06:02:22Z","timestamp":1650607342000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Diagnostic Accuracy of Interferon-Gamma Release Assays for Tuberculous Meningitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"An","family":"Wen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Er-Ling","family":"Leng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shi-Min","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yong-Liang","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wen-Feng","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dong-Yuan","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fan","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1099","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(00)02742-2","article-title":"Specific Immune-Based Diagnosis of Tuberculosis","volume":"356","author":"Andersen","year":"2000","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"755","DOI":"10.1099\/jmm.0.000975","article-title":"Inadequate Diagnostics: The Case to Move Beyond the Bacilli for Detection of Meningitis Due to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis","volume":"68","author":"Bahr","year":"2019","journal-title":"J. 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