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Tuberculous Pericarditis is Multibacillary and Bacterial Burden Drives High Mortality.

EBioMedicine
BACKGROUND: Tuberculous pericarditis is considered to be a paucibacillary process; the large pericardial fluid accumulation is attributed to an inflammatory response to tuberculoproteins. Mortality rates are high. We investigated the role of clinical...