Tuberculous Pericarditis is Multibacillary and Bacterial Burden Drives High Mortality

BACKGROUND: Tuberculous pericarditis is considered to be a paucibacillary process; the large pericardial fluid accumulation is attributed to an inflammatory response to tuberculoproteins. Mortality rates are high. We investigated the role of clinical and microbial factors predictive of tuberculous p...

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Publicado en:EBioMedicine
Autores principales: Pasipanodya, Jotam G., Mubanga, Mwenya, Ntsekhe, Mpiko, Pandie, Shaheen, Magazi, Beki T., Gumedze, Freedom, Myer, Landon, Gumbo, Tawanda, Mayosi, Bongani M.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740299/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26870789
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.09.034
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