Abstract
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a systemic disease, predominantly affecting the lungs. Globally, tuberculosis affects around 10.4 million people per year, and kills around million of them, with the majority of patients presenting with pulmonary disease. One of the key challenges to global tuberculosis control is correct diagnosis. The diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis can be obtained from microscopy and culture of a number of different sources including expectorated sputum, induced sputum, gastric washings and bronchoscopy. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) can provide an early conrmative diagnosis in such patients. Among the bronchoscopic materials, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is the best diagnostic material for the diagnosis of PTB.
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