The Value of Routinely Culturing for Tuberculosis During Bronchoscopies in an Intermediate Tuberculosis-Burden Country

PURPOSE: Many medical centers routinely culture bronchoscopy samples for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, even when tuberculosis is not strongly suspected. The value of this practice, however, is controversial. We evaluated the role of that procedure in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in an inter...

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Autori principali: Kim, Myung Hoon, Suh, Gee Young, Chung, Man Pyo, Kim, Hojoong, Kwon, O Jung, Lee, Jang Ho, Lee, Nam Yong, Koh, Won-Jung
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2007
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628186/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18159588
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2007.48.6.969
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