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Culture Negative Extra Pulmonary Spinal Tuberculosis – a New Challenge

2022-04-19

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<h4>Introduction: </h4> Pulmonary Tuberculosis(TB) can be detected by sputum cultures. However, Extra-Pulmonary Spinal Tuberculosis(EPSTB), diagnosis is challenging as it relies on retrieving samples. It is usually discovered in the late stages of presentation due to its slow onset and vague early presentation. Difficulty in detecting Mycobacterium Tuberculosis bacteria from specimens is well documented. Diagnosti...

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Literature Corpus work: 6881d351-93d8-5d13-9b9e-62dceb4a9fe0
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1359497/v1

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