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Harold Levine, MD; William Metzger, PhD; Donaldo Lacera, MD; Ludmila Kay

Arch Intern Med. 1970;126(2):269-271.

Abstract
Pleural biopsy cultures for tubercle bacilli, performed on specimens from 63 consecutive patients with exudative pleural effusions, grew out Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the tissue of 16 patients. Twenty-one of the patients in the study were eventually proved to have tuberculous pleurisy. The rate of positive pleural biopsy cultures in proved cases was, therefore, 76%. When culture results of the

Author Affiliations
Chicago

From the Chest Service, Cook County Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine (Dr. Levine); and the departments of pathology (Dr. Lacera) and bacteriology (Dr. Metzger, Miss Kay), Hek-; toen Institute of Medical Research, Cook County Hospital, Chicago.

Footnotes
Received for publication Jan 30, 1970; accepted March 6.

Presented in part at the American Thoracic Society meeting, Miami, Fla, May 25, 1969.

Reprint requests to 1825 W Harrison St, Chicago 60612 (Dr. Levine).

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