Incubation time of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex sputum cultures in BACTEC MGIT 960: Four weeks of negative culture is enough for physicians to consider alternative diagnoses

We retrospectively analyzed time to detection of 3747 positive MGIT sputum cultures at a laboratory in a country with heavy burden of tuberculosis. Ninety-nine percent of diagnostic cultures turned positive within 28 days, suggesting that physicians may consider alternative diagnoses if sputum cultu...

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Vydáno v:Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Hlavní autoři: Ogwang, Sam, Mubiri, Paul, Bark, Charles M., Joloba, Moses L., Boom, W. Henry, Johnson, John L.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: 2015
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4573350/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26239846
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.07.002
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