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Hi, I am 40 years old women with shortness of breath develops a non productive cough bronchial washing are smear negative from acid fast bacteria but m. Tuberculosis is isolated from sample what form of of tuberculosis does the patient have?
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There is nothing like different forms of tuberculosis and it is only that the site of infection matters for diagnosis and in smear we just see the sample in a microscope with a naked eyes and in culture we wait for few hours for any presence of organism to grow.
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