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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Research

Comparison of Sputum-Culture Conversion for Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis

Colleen ScottComments to Author , Joseph S. Cavanaugh, Benjamin J. Silk, Julia Ershova, Gerald H. Mazurek, Philip A. LoBue, and Patrick K. Moonan
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Time to sputum-culture conversion for patients with Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis TB. At day 0, a total of 297 persons were at risk for M. bovis TB, and 30,848 were at risk for M. tuberculosis TB; at day 20, a total of 239 persons were at risk for M. bovis TB, and 25,963 were at risk for M. tuberculosis TB; at day 40, a total of 143 persons were at risk for M. bovis TB, and 17,882 were at risk for M. tuberculosis TB; at day 60, a total of 85 persons were at risk for M. bovis TB, and 10

Figure 2. Time to sputum-culture conversion for case-patients with Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis TB, United States, 2006–2013. At day 0, a total of 297 persons had culture-positive M. bovis TB and 30,848 had culture-positive M. tuberculosis TB; at day 20, a total of 239 persons had culture-positive M. bovis TB and 25,363 had culture-positive M. tuberculosis TB; at day 40, a total of 143 persons had culture-positive M. bovis TB and 17,882 had culture-positive M. tuberculosis TB; at day 60, a total of 85 persons had culture-positive M. bovis TB and 10,853 had culture-positive M. tuberculosis TB; and at day 80, a total of 47 persons had culture-positive M. bovis TB and 6,084 had culture-positive M. tuberculosis TB. TB, tuberculosis.

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