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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...
Autores principales: | Chaudhuri, Arunabha Datta, Bhuniya, Sourin, Pandit, Sudipta, Dey, Atin, Mukherjee, Subhasis, Bhanja, Pulakesh |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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