This was because most patients who had successful treatments did not produce sputum (normally
produced as the result of infection) after eight months of therapy and therefore could not give a sample.
Not exact matches
As a
result, it
produces certain factors that lead to an
infection of the host.
As a
result, blood tests may be detecting the presence
of other mycobacterial
infections; they may also
produce false positives when antibody levels remain elevated after cases
of TB have been treated.
Some
of the causes for hyperglycemia may be pancreatitis, and the
resulting inability to
produce insulin; normally occurring hormones, especially in female dogs; diet; and
infections of the body (such
as teeth, or urinary tract).
Antigen testing is not
as effective at detecting
infection with adult worms < 5 months old and is unable to detect immature worm
infections, male - only
infections, and some
infections with only one adult female worm.1 If the
infection does not
produce an adult worm, the worms are immature at the time
of testing, or only male adult worms are present, a false - negative
result may be obtained.