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Table 1 Patients with sputum specimens not available or negative on culture

From: Serial counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum as surrogate markers of the sterilising activity of rifampicin and pyrazinamide in treating pulmonary tuberculosis

Duration of treatment (days)

Patients (n = 122)

 

Not available

 

Culture negative

 
 

No.

%

No.

%

0

2

1.6

0

0

2

33

27.0

0

0

7

44

36.1

2

2

14

45

36.9

8

7

28

54

44.3

20

16