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Diagnostic yield of combination between histology and culture [6]
| Study | Patients with ileocolonic TB (N) | Histology N (%) |
Culture positivity N (%) |
Culture medium | Combined diagnostic yield% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vij et al | 28 | 21 (75) | 13 (46) | LJ medium | 75 |
| Amarapurkar et al | 26 | 13 (50) | 6 (23) | BACTEC | Not commented |
| Shah et al | 50 | 40 (80) | 3 (6) | LJ medium | 80 |
| Leung et al | 23 | 3 (13) | 17 (73) | BACTEC | 82 |
| Krisch et al | 18 | 14 (78) | 14 (78) | BACTEC | 78 |
| Samant et al | 61 | 48 (78.6) | 31 (50.8) | BACTEC | 91.8 |
