Extended Data Fig. 2: Overview of the recruitment activities and procedures for the XACT-II study.

* A vast majority (235/288; 81.6%) of the participants in the Xpert arm of the study received their results on the same-day,thus, enabling ‘immediate’ (that is, same-visit) referral for TB treatment initiation during the same interaction while only a small proportion (42/296; 14.2%) of participants in the smear arm received their results in the same-day.