Factors Associated with Persistent Sputum Positivity at the End of the Second Month of Tuberculosis Treatment in Lithuania

BACKGROUND: Non-conversion of sputum smear and culture prolongs the infectivity of the patient and has been associated with unfavorable outcomes. We aimed to evaluate factors associated with persistent sputum positivity at the end of two months of treatment of new case pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). M...

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Autores principales: Diktanas, Saulius, Vasiliauskiene, Edita, Polubenko, Katazyna, Danila, Edvardas, Celedinaite, Indre, Boreikaite, Evelina, Misiunas, Kipras
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6030656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29926543
http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2017.0096

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