Oral antimicrobial rinse to reduce mycobacterial culture contamination among tuberculosis suspects in Uganda: a prospective study.

Oral antimicrobial rinse to reduce mycobacterial culture contamination among tuberculosis suspects in Uganda: a prospective study.

Contamination by bacterial or fungal organisms reduces the effectiveness of mycobacterial culture for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We evaluated the effect of an anti-microbial and an anti-fungal oral rinse prior to expectoration on culture-contamination rates.We enrolled a consecutive r...

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Main Authors: Nelson Kalema, Saskia Den Boon, Adithya Cattamanchi, J Lucian Davis, Alfred Andama, Winceslaus Katagira, Charles Everett, Nicholas Walter, Patrick Byanyima, Sylvia Kaswabuli, William Worodria, Laurence Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3395623?pdf=render

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