Patients with clinically diagnosed TB (without bacteriological confirmation) and patients with positive results on lymph node aspirates (but without positive results in sputum) excluded.Contaminated c
Sub-groups 1 (empirically treated participants) and sub-group 2 (participants with microbiologically-confirmed TB) are not mutually exclusive as some participants who were started on empiric TB treatm
“Culture” = specimen culture result without supplementation; “ID” = mycobacterial identification of culture without supplementation; “TTD” = time to detection (in days) for culture without supplementa
