Xpert MTB/RIF false detection of rifampin-resistant tuberculosis from prior infection

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Dec 1;190(11):1316-8. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201408-1500LE.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antibiotics, Antitubercular / therapeutic use
  • China
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Dyspnea / diagnosis*
  • Dyspnea / etiology
  • Emigrants and Immigrants
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology*
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Pleural Effusion / etiology*
  • Pleural Effusion / microbiology
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Recurrence
  • Rifampin / therapeutic use
  • San Francisco
  • Sputum / microbiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / microbiology

Substances

  • Antibiotics, Antitubercular
  • Rifampin