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Slide 026 Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
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It is very difficult to identify acid-fast bacilli from the pus of a patient with a tuberculous empyema (pyomenumothorax). If tuberculosis is confined to the collapsed lung, it is usually also impossible to make the diagnosis from a sputum smear examination.

   
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