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However, productive cough, pleural pain, weight loss, night sweats, chest radiograph results suggestive of TB, positive tuberculin skin testing, and/or multiple culture-positive specimens were invariably present in patients with TB with such specimens. ...
However, productive cough, pleural pain, weight loss, night sweats, chest radiograph results suggestive of TB, positive tuberculin sk …