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Concomitant presence of culture-proven active pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - A hospital based study

OBJECTIVE: To find out the prevalence of concomitant active pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) in patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using the gold standard liquid and solid culture media for the detection of acid fast bacillus. METHODS: Eighty clinically and radiologically diagnosed...

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Autores principales: Liaquat, Aneela, Iram, Shagufta, Hussain, Shahida, Yusuf, Noshin Wasim, Azeem, Hassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publications 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26870094
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.316.8166