Baseline predictors of sputum culture conversion in pulmonary tuberculosis: importance of cavities, smoking, time to detection and W-Beijing genotype.

We also determined the critical strain rate (CSR), understood as the tangent of the inclination angle between the tangent to the crack development curve and the crack development

Bacteriological confirmation, with identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can be established by sputum smear microscopy, sputum culture, examination of BAL,

The traditional diagnostic imprecision in the detection of pulmonary TB in children, due to the absence of positive results from sputum smear microscopy, may call into question

A total of 72 specimens from 72 patients with clinical symptoms of tuberculosis, including 70 sputum and two bronchial aspirate samples, were tested in parallel by smear, culture,

METHODS A total of 302 sputum samples from an equal number of patients with presumptive diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) were submitted for routine smear microscopy,

Programs for detecting cases of tuberculosis employ the following diagnostic methods: chest X-rays, tuberculin tests, and sputum smear or sputum culture

Type of case, smoking, and sputum culture at the time of diagnosis were important associated factors for resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs after the analysis adjusted for

Bacteriological confirmation, with identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, can be established by sputum smear microscopy, sputum culture, examination of BAL,