| Title | Blood cultures for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis among HIV-infected patients from rural South Africa: a cross-sectional study. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | Heysell, Scott K., Tania A. Thomas, Neel R. Gandhi, Anthony P. Moll, François J. Eksteen, Yacoob Coovadia, Lynette Roux, Palav Babaria, Umesh Lalloo, Gerald Friedland, and Sarita Shah |
| Journal | BMC infectious diseases |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pagination | 344 |
| Date Published | 2010 |
| ISSN | 1471-2334 |
| Keywords | Adolescent, Adult, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections, Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Female, HIV Infections, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Rural Population, South Africa, Sputum, Young Adult |
| Abstract | The yield of mycobacterial blood cultures for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among drug-resistant TB suspects has not been described. |
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-10-344 |
| Alternate Journal | BMC Infect. Dis. |
