Incremental Yield of Serial Sputum Cultures for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis among HIV Infected Smear Negative Pulmonary TB Suspects in Kampala, Uganda

BACKGROUND: Sputum culture is the gold standard for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Although mostly used for research, culture is recommended by the World Health Organization for TB diagnosis among HIV infected smear negative PTB suspects. Even then, the number of sputum samples required...

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Main Authors: Ssengooba, Willy, Kiwanuka, Noah, Kateete, David P., Katamba, Achilles, Joloba, Moses L.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358271/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22629439
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037650
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