HIV-Associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bloodstream Infection Is Underdiagnosed by Single Blood Culture

We assessed the additional diagnostic yield for Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infection (BSI) by doing more than one tuberculosis (TB) blood culture from HIV-infected inpatients. In a retrospective analysis of two cohorts based in Cape Town, South Africa, 72/99 (73%) patients with M. tuberc...

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Autores principales: Barr, David A., Kerkhoff, Andrew D., Schutz, Charlotte, Ward, Amy M., Davies, Gerry R., Wilkinson, Robert J., Meintjes, Graeme
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2018
Materias:
Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01914-17

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01914-17

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