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Topics:
Infectious Disease • Tuberculosis • Pulmonology • Pulmonary Infections • HIV & AIDS • Hospital Medicine
Do you rule out TB in patients with AIDS and lobar pneumonia?
What’s your threshold to get the three AFBs and place the patient in airborne isolation?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Depends:
+Ve Risk Factors:
Travel/contact Hx,
recent Quantiferon Conversion,
changing CXR,
Night sweats
Unexplained low-grade temps
Then, yes.
Otherwise, no.
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