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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi, Francois J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland and N. Sarita Shah
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.16(3), pp.557-560
01/03/2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1603.091486
PMCID: PMC3322040
PMID: 20202446

Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
The yield from aspirating lymph nodes and pleural fluid for diagnosing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is unknown. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from lymph node or pleural fluid aspirates of 21 patients; 7 (33%) cultures grew XDR M. tuberculosis. Additive diagnostic yield for XDR M. tuberculosis was found in parallel culture of sputum and fluid aspirate.
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