Genetic polymorphisms in TNFgenes and tuberculosis in North Indians

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the tuberculosis patients used for the study

Some patients in the PTB group had both smears and cultures positive while in the LNTB group, two patients had positive FNAC as well as biopsy positive. Similarly, in the DTB group 4 patients had both smear and cultures positive from the cold abscesses.
DTB: disseminated tuberculosis; PTB: pulmonary tuberculosis; LNTB = lymph node tuberculosis; FNAC= fine needle aspiration cytology

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