Pretreatment chest x-ray severity and its relation to bacterial burden in smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Chest radiographs are used for diagnosis and severity assessment in tuberculosis (TB). The extent of disease as determined by smear grade and cavitation as a binary measure can predict 2-month smear results, but little has been done to determine whether radiological severity reflects the...

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Pubblicato in:BMC Med
Autori principali: Murthy, S. E., Chatterjee, F., Crook, A., Dawson, R., Mendel, C., Murphy, M. E., Murray, S. R., Nunn, A. J., Phillips, P. P. J., Singh, Kasha P., McHugh, T. D., Gillespie, S. H.
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2018
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5961483/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29779492
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1053-3
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