Indicators for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis positivity detected with bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

• Main Authors: Xi Liu (Author), Xing-Fang Hou (Author), Lei Gao (Author), Guo-Fang Deng (Author), Ming-Xia Zhang (Author), Qun-Yi Deng (Author), Tao-Sheng Ye (Author), Qian-Ting Yang (Author), Bo-Ping Zhou (Author), Zhi-Hua Wen (Author), Hai-Ying Liu (Author), Hardy Kornfeld (Author), Xin-Chun Chen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains a challenge in clinic, especially for sputum negative pulmonary TB. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) has higher sensitivity than sputum for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). However, bronchoscopy is invas...