Current guidelines for suspected TB recommend testing sputum samples ... with possible TB who test negative on nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) and acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smears.

Sputum culture revealed alpha-hemolytic ... bacteriostatic activity for pathogenic gram-positive cocci and gram-negative bacilli. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and, to a somewhat less extent, Proteus ...

This may well be due to the difficulty, frequently experienced, of obtaining positive cultures from the sputum of patients on streptomycin therapy even when tubercle bacilli are found on ...

Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and other ministers urged all eligible individuals to apply for ration cards and Indiramma houses, even as the gram sabhas to identify ...

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