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Canadian Neighbor Pharmacy: Discussion of Negative Acid-Fast Smears Needed To Adequately Assess Infectivity of Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Published in Tuberculosis
Our findings suggest that index cases assessed with only two smear-negative sputum specimens can be considered no more infectious than cases with at least three smear-negative specimens. Previous studies have concentrated on the likelihood of a positive smear or culture in relation to the order of specimen collection. Craft and coworkers found no positive smears […]