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The diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in an HIV-endemic setting and the use of induced sputum
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2005)
Setting: A hospital in the capital city of Uganda. Objectives: To determine the proportion of positive induced sputum cultures among probable childhood tuberculosis (TB) cases, to describe the laboratory and radiological ...
A comparison of sodium hypochlorite n-acetyl-l-cystein sputum concentration methods and culture for diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis suspects attending Mulago hospital.
(2005)
The sensitivity of direct sputum smear microscopy is very low, ranging from 25 to 65%. It is thus inevitable that direct smear microscopy needs to be improved or other methods of diagnosis of smear negative (TB) be designed. ...