Differentially Detectable <named-content content-type="genus-species">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</named-content> Cells in Sputum from Treatment-Naive Subjects in Haiti and Their Proportionate Increase after Initiation of Treatment

ABSTRACT Recent reports indicate that the sputum of 80% or more of treatment-naive subjects with tuberculosis recruited in England or South Africa contained more viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells detected by limiting dilution (LD) in liquid culture than detected as CFU. Efforts to generate suc...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kathrine McAulay, Kohta Saito, Thulasi Warrier, Kathleen Frances Walsh, Laurent Daniel Mathurin, Gertrude Royal-Mardi, Myung Hee Lee, Oksana Ocheretina, Jean William Pape, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Carl F. Nathan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/512b0576a1e3473490f90c8d7e472437
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!