title: [Microbiological blood studies in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adolescents].
abstract: Luminescence bacterioscopy of capillary blood has been found to be an additional rapid laboratory method that verifies a clinical diagnosis in cases of negative sputum bacterioscopic tests in 48.8% of the adolescent patients. The Boy luminescence microscopy shows that in adolescent tuberculosis patients, Mycobacteria are significantly more frequently present in the capillary blood (72.4%) than in the sputum (30.9%) and bronchial washes (34.8%). The detection of Mycobacteria in the capillary blood has been evidenced by cultural tests of some venous blood samples in the BACTEC 460 TB system.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Kosareva
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Golyshevskaia
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ovsiankina
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Puzanova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000097:blood* / Q000382:microbiology*