Open AccessRole of sputum examination for acid fast bacilli in tuberculous pleural effusion
Author(s) -
Arunabha Datta Chaudhuri,
Sourin Bhuniya,
Sudipta Pandit,
Atin Dey,
Subhasis Mukherjee,
Pulakesh Bhanja
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.76296
Subject(s) - medicine , sputum , tuberculosis , etiology , pleural effusion , sputum culture , mycobacterium tuberculosis , effusion , pathology , surgery
Sputum for acid fast bacilli (AFB) is seldom looked for in the etiological diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion usually due to the absence of any parenchymal lesion radiologically, but presence of tubercle bacilli in sputum may have important epidemiological and therapeutic implication.