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Extensively Drug-ResistantMycobacterium tuberculosisfrom Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Year: 2010

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: 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.

Source: Emerging infectious diseases

DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.091486

Authors: Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi, François J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, N. Sarita Shah

Institutions: National Health Laboratory Service, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, University of California, Irvine, Yale University, University of Virginia, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Language: English

Topic: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, National Institutes of Health

OpenAlex ID: W1988358624

FWCI: 1.033

Cites: 8

Cited by: 8

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