Cavitary disease and quantitative sputum bacillary load in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
We examined sputum bacterial loads in adults with newly diagnosed tuberculosis using quantitative culture and time-until-positive (DTP) culture in BACTEC 460. Patients with cavitary disease had higher CFU levels than those without cavities and shorter DTPs. Within radiographic strata of moderately and far advanced tuberculosis, higher CFU counts were associated with cavitary disease.
Palaci
Moises
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Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas-Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Av Marechal Campos, 1468 Maruipe, Vitória, Brazil. mpalaci@ndi.ufes.br
Dietze
Reynaldo
R
Hadad
David Jamil
DJ
Ribeiro
Fabiola Karla Corrêa
FK
Peres
Renata Lyrio
RL
Vinhas
Solange Alves
SA
Maciel
Ethel Leonor Noia
EL
do Valle Dettoni
Valdério
V
Horter
Libby
L
Boom
W Henry
WH
Johnson
John L
JL
Eisenach
Kathleen D
KD
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*