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Epidemiology of Peripheral Lymph Node Tuberculosis and Genotyping of M. tuberculosis Strains: A Case-Control Study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Khandkar Chinmay, Harrington Zinta, Jelfs Peter J, Sintchenko Vitali, Dobler Claudia C
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BACKGROUND: This study examined potential risk factors of lymph node tuberculosis (LNTB), including phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), in comparison to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in a setting with an ethnically diverse population. METHODS: We conducted a case-control study at a major tuberculosis clinic in Sydney, Australia, which included all patients with peripheral LNTB seen at the...
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