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Time to positive culture results and sensitivity of microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility (MODS) and Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) cultures of pleural fluid specimens (left) and pleural biopsy specimens (right) from 70 patients with proven pleural tuberculosis. Percentages shown represent the sensitivity of the method, in which any positive test result was the reference standard. Deco, decontaminated culture; direct, nondecontaminated culture.
