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Additional role of second washing specimen obtained during single bronchoscopy session in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis
BACKGROUND: Flexible bronchoscopy with bronchial washing is a useful procedure for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), when a patient cannot produce sputum spontaneously or when sputum smears are negative. However, the benefit of gaining serial bronchial washing specimens for diagnosis of TB h...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765986/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24059248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-404 |