Role of sputum examination for acid fast bacilli in tuberculous pleural effusion

BACKGROUND: Sputum for acid fast bacilli (AFB) is seldom looked for in the etiological diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion usually due to the absence of any parenchymal lesion radiologically, but presence of tubercle bacilli in sputum may have important epidemiological and therapeutic implicat...

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Autores principales: Chaudhuri, Arunabha Datta, Bhuniya, Sourin, Pandit, Sudipta, Dey, Atin, Mukherjee, Subhasis, Bhanja, Pulakesh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21654981
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.76296

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21654981
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.76296

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