Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10962005 | Tuberculosis | 2014 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Time to liquid culture positivity (TTP) is a technically accessible and widely available measure of viable mycobacterial load in sputum samples. We describe the ability of TTP to predict colony forming unit counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum samples collected before or during the first 14 days of antituberculosis therapy.
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Authors
Andreas H. Diacon, Lize van der Merwe, Anne-Marie Demers, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Amour Venter, Peter R. Donald,