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Sites and methods of diagnois of extrapulmonary involvement in 40 patients
*, When a patient had more than one organ involved, all of them were counted independently; †, 2 patients with intestinal TB diagnosed based on typical colonosopic findings and the other 2 patients with TB laryngitis without AFB bacilli and caseating granuloma in pathologic examinations.
PCR, polymerase chain reaction; TB, tuberculosis; AFB, acid-fast bacilli.
