Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2010)

Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa

  • Scott K. Heysell,
  • Anthony P. Moll,
  • Neel R. Gandhi,
  • François J. Eksteen,
  • Palav Babaria,
  • Yacoob Coovadia,
  • Lynn Roux,
  • Umesh Lalloo,
  • Gerald Friedland,
  • N. Sarita Shah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1603.091486
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 557 – 560

Abstract

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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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