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.
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Heysell, S. K., Moll, A. P., Gandhi, N. R., Eksteen, F. J., Babaria, P., Coovadia, Y., … Shah, N. S. (2010). Extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from aspirates, Rural South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16(3), 557–560. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1603.091486
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