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Internal Medicine • Infectious Disease • Tuberculosis • Pulmonology • Pulmonary Infections • HIV & AIDS
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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