Oral Antimicrobial Rinse to Reduce Mycobacterial Culture Contamination among Tuberculosis Suspects in Uganda: A Prospective Study

RATIONALE: Contamination by bacterial or fungal organisms reduces the effectiveness of mycobacterial culture for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We evaluated the effect of an anti-microbial and an anti-fungal oral rinse prior to expectoration on culture-contamination rates. METHODS: We enr...

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Autores principales: Kalema, Nelson, Boon, Saskia Den, Cattamanchi, Adithya, Davis, J. Lucian, Andama, Alfred, Katagira, Winceslaus, Everett, Charles, Walter, Nicholas, Byanyima, Patrick, Kaswabuli, Sylvia, Worodria, William, Huang, Laurence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038888

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22808020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038888

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