In December 2000, we published a letter (PubMed PMID: 11198009) concerning the isolation of M. tuberculosis on both blood and chocolate agar media from a synovial fluid sample following prolonged incubation ( 5 ). In recent years, we have been routinely recovering M. tuberculosis in our laboratory from blood samples that have been cultured
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