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ArticleInfectious diseases in clinical practice (Baltimore, Md.)2016

Diagnosis of Concurrent Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Tuberculous Otitis Media Confirmed by Xpert MTB/RIF in the United States.

Kathleen M Tompkins, Melissa A Reimers, Becky L White, Michael E Herce

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Article in Infectious diseases in clinical practice (Baltimore, Md.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Tropical otitis].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathleen M TompkinsThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Melissa A ReimersUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Internal Medicine.
Becky L WhiteUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of infectious diseases.
Michael E HerceUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of infectious diseases; Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ).
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Training in Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIVT32AI007001 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SENA-SOBERANO, ARLENE C. · 1985 to 2025
$10.9M
Enhancing HIV screening Among Primary care physicians in the SoutheastK23MH094250 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WHITE, BECKY L · 2012 to 2016
$884k
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007001NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH094250
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important cause of infectious morbidity in the United States (US), necessitating timely and accurate diagnosis. We report a case of concurrent pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB presenting as tuberculous otitis media in a hospitalized US patient admitted with cough, night sweats, and unilateral purulent otorrhea. Diagnosis was made by smear microscopy and rapidly confirmed by Xpert MTB/RIF-a novel, automated nucleic acid amplification test for the rapid detection of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB. This case adds to the growing body of evidence validating Xpert MTB/RIF as an effective tool for the rapid diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB, even in low TB-prevalence settings such as the US, when testing is performed on non-respiratory specimens.

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chronic otitis mediaextrapulmonary tuberculosisnucleic acid amplification testotorrheaXpert

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PMID27346926
PMCPMC4915369
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