Baseline Predictors of Sputum Culture Conversion in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Importance of Cavities, Smoking, Time to Detection and W-Beijing Genotype

• Marianne E. Visser ,

  * E-mail: marianne.visser@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Michael C. Stead,

  Affiliations MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gerhard Walzl,

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Rob Warren,

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Michael Schomaker,

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Harleen M. S. Grewal,

  Affiliation Section of Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

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• Elizabeth C. Swart,

  Affiliation Division of Dietetics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gary Maartens

  Affiliation Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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