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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 3(16), p. 557-560, 2010

DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.091486

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Extensively Drug-ResistantMycobacterium tuberculosisfrom Aspirates, Rural South Africa

Journal article published in 2010 by Scott K. Heysell, Anthony P. Moll, Neel R. Gandhi ORCID, François J. Eksteen, Palav Babaria, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynn Roux, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, N. Sarita Shah
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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.