Abstract:Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is characterized by atypical clinical symptoms, difficulty in diagnosis, a high rate of disability, and a high mortality rate. Early EPTB diagnosis aids recovery. The gold standard for EPTB diagnosis needs surgery, puncture, and other invasive testing to collect a lesion sample for mycobacterium tuberculosis culture and Xpert. However, early diagnosis of EPTB has been challenging due to the lack of specificity and inability of current diagnostic methods to differentiate betwe… Show more
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