RT Book, Section
A1 Chesnutt, Asha N.
A1 Chesnutt, Mark S.
A1 Prendergast, Niall T.
A1 Prendergast, Thomas J.
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1166164848
T1 Pulmonary Tuberculosis
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260455281
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1166164848
RD 2022/05/25
AB ESSENTIALS  OF  DIAGNOSISFatigue,  weight  loss,  fever,  night  sweats,  and  productive  cough.Risk  factors  for  acquisition  of  infection:  household  exposure,  incarceration,  drug  use,  travel  to  an  endemic  area.Chest  radiograph:  pulmonary  opacities,  most  often  apical.Acid-fast  bacilli  on  smear  of  sputum  or  sputum  culture  positive  for  M  tuberculosis.