A cross-sectional study of patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and normal chest radiographs - what characteristics were associated with sputum culture positivity?

Victoria LeLisa PascopellaJanice WestenhousePennan M Barry

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

Culturing sputum from patients with EPTB identified pulmonary cases not detected by chest radiograph, particularly among patients with HIV or >1 disease site.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
pulmonary tuberculosis
cystic fibrosis
hiv aids
antiretroviral therapy
hiv positive
hiv infected
human immunodeficiency virus
hiv testing
pulmonary hypertension
hepatitis c virus
physical activity
men who have sex with men
emergency department
south africa