Abstract
THE laboratory data of 7,704 patients admitted for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis during the years 1962 to 1981 have been reviewed. Only one half of such patients have sputa giving cultures positive for M. tberculosis. As a cause of lung disease M. bovis is a great rarity in this country. Patients with resistant organisms have dwindled to a handful, namely from 38 to 3 per annum. The diagnostic yields and guidelines given by examination of laryngeal swabs, pleural fluids, pleural biopsies are detailed. This paper is an account of twenty years’ experience of the laboratory diagnosis and control of treatment of tuberculosis of the lung.
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