Blood cultures for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis among HIV-infected patients from rural South Africa: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The yield of mycobacterial blood cultures for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among drug-resistant TB suspects has not been described. METHODS: We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis to determine the yield of mycobacterial bl...

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Autores principales: Heysell, Scott K, Thomas, Tania A, Gandhi, Neel R, Moll, Anthony P, Eksteen, François J, Coovadia, Yacoob, Roux, Lynette, Babaria, Palav, Lalloo, Umesh, Friedland, Gerald, Shah, Sarita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21134279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-344

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