Tuberculous Pericarditis is Multibacillary and Bacterial Burden Drives High Mortality

BACKGROUND: Tuberculous pericarditis is considered to be a paucibacillary process; the large pericardial fluid accumulation is attributed to an inflammatory response to tuberculoproteins. Mortality rates are high. We investigated the role of clinical and microbial factors predictive of tuberculous p...

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Autores principales: Pasipanodya, Jotam G., Mubanga, Mwenya, Ntsekhe, Mpiko, Pandie, Shaheen, Magazi, Beki T., Gumedze, Freedom, Myer, Landon, Gumbo, Tawanda, Mayosi, Bongani M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26870789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.09.034

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26870789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.09.034

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