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The Value of Routinely Culturing for Tuberculosis During Bronchoscopies in an Intermediate Tuberculosis-Burden Country
PURPOSE: Many medical centers routinely culture bronchoscopy samples for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, even when tuberculosis is not strongly suspected. The value of this practice, however, is controversial. We evaluated the role of that procedure in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in an inter...
Autores principales: | Kim, Myung Hoon, Suh, Gee Young, Chung, Man Pyo, Kim, Hojoong, Kwon, O Jung, Lee, Jang Ho, Lee, Nam Yong, Koh, Won-Jung |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Yonsei University College of Medicine
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18159588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2007.48.6.969 |
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