Clinical Study
M. tuberculosis in Lymph Node Biopsy Paraffin-Embedded Sections
Table 2
Summery of M. tuberculosis prevalence from paraffin-embedded biopsy sections in different countries.
| Country (year) | No. of specimens | AFB result |
| Russia (2002) [18] | 114 | 18.5% | Germany (1999) [19] | 16 | 36% | Israel (2000) [20] | 21 | 85.7% | University of Malaya (1994) [21] | 59 | 49% | Ethiopia (Butajira) (2002) [22] | 147 | 72% | Jimma (this study) | 60 | 61.7% |
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