The yield of different pleural fluid volumes for Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture

Thorax

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 290-291

  Von Groote Bidlingmaier, Florian ^a,b   Koegelenberg, Coenraad Frederik ^a,b   Bolliger, Chris T ^a,b   Chung, Pui Khi ^a,b   Rautenbach, Cornelia ^c   Wasserman, Elizabeth ^c   Bernasconi, Maurizio ^a,b   Friedrich, Sven Olaf ^a,b   Diacon, Andreas Henri ^a,b  

^a Department of Biomedical Sciences   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INOCULATION; LETTER; LIQUID CULTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURA FLUID CULTURE YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; TIME TO CULTURE POSITIVITY; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

EID: 84873734516     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202338     Document Type: Letter

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