TY - JOUR AU - Heysell, Scott K. AU - Moll, Anthony P. AU - Gandhi, Neel R. AU - Eksteen, François J. AU - Babaria, Palav AU - Coovadia, Yacoob AU - Roux, Lynn AU - Lalloo, Umesh AU - Friedland, Gerald AU - Shah, N. Sarita T1 - Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Aspirates, Rural South Africa T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 557 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The yield from aspirating lymph nodes and pleural fluid for diagnosing extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is unknown. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was cultured from lymph node or pleural fluid aspirates of 21 patients; 7 (33%) cultures grew XDR M. tuberculosis. Additive diagnostic yield for XDR M. tuberculosis was found in parallel culture of sputum and fluid aspirate. KW - Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis KW - HIV KW - lymphadenitis KW - tuberculous KW - pleurisy KW - bacteria KW - South Africa KW - CME KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1603.091486 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/3/09-1486_article ER - End of Reference