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810. Diagnosis of BCG Aortitis by Plasma Metagenomic Sequencing

BACKGROUND: The use of intra-vesicular Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) for bladder cancer can result in disseminated/endovascular BCG infection. The diagnosis of BCGosis in this setting is complicated by the risks of biopsy of an endovascular focus and the long duration of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) cult...

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Autores principales: Cooper, Chris, Hong, David, Blair, Lily, Bercovici, Sivan, Ahmed, Asim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255680/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.817