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 th...

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Hauptverfasser: Murthy, SE, Chatterjee, F, Crook, A, Dawson, R, Mendel, C, Murphy, ME, Murray, SR, Nunn, AJ, Phillips, PPJ, Singh, KP, McHugh, TD, Gillespie, SH, REMoxTB Consortium
Format: Journal article
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2018

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