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Normal chest radiography in pulmonary tuberculosis: implications for obtaining respiratory specimen cultures.

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2008

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Tracy Pepper, P Joseph, Christopher Mwenya, McKee Gs, A Haushalter, A Carter, Jon Warkentin, Haas Dw, Sterling Tr
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Abstract

The rate of normal CXR among persons with culture-confirmed pulmonary TB was high. Respiratory specimen cultures should be obtained in TB suspects with a normal CXR, particularly HIV-infected persons.