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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...
Autores principales: | Pasipanodya, Jotam G., Mubanga, Mwenya, Ntsekhe, Mpiko, Pandie, Shaheen, Magazi, Beki T., Gumedze, Freedom, Myer, Landon, Gumbo, Tawanda, Mayosi, Bongani M. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2015
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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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