Can resuscitation-promoting factors be used to improve culture rates of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis?

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1556-1557

  O'Connor, Benjamin D ^a   Woltmann, Gerrit ^b   Patel, Hemu ^c   Turapov, Obolbek ^a   Haldar, Pranabashis ^b   Mukamolova, Galina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONDITIONED MEDIUM; CYTOKINE; RESUSCITATION-PROMOTING FACTOR, BACTERIA;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LETTER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONED MEDIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84948982662     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0682     Document Type: Letter

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