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Tuberculosis Test to confirm
My father is undergoing treatment for wrist bone chronic infection. The doctor is telling it's a case of TB arthritis. And treatment for same (ATT medications) is going.
We did CB-NAAT test one month back and it came negative. How we can confirm tb and be sure that the treatment is going in current direction.
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Dr. Soudip Saha
General Physician
5 yrs exp
South 24 Parganas
Its extra pulmonary tb. CB-NAAT is not a confirmatory test. Continue medication and do a culture and biopsy
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Dr. Upneet
General Physician
23 yrs exp
Jalandhar
Hi, Nowadays extrapulmonary tb is becoming common;don'tworry;
Please go ahead with Synovial biopsy or culture which is the confirmatory test for this.
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kindly strictly complete the ATT without fail
Your father will be fine
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Take care of him
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