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To the Editor: In the report of Kline et al. describing an outbreak of tuberculosis among bar patrons (July 27 issue),¹ 4 of the 14 active tuberculosis cases occurred among patients seronegative for the human immunodeficiency virus who had positive tuberculin tests but normal chest radiographs. This is not a new phenomenon²; among contacts of patients with active tuberculosis on Navy ships, 3 to 25 percent of those whose tuberculin skin tests converted from negative to positive had positive sputum cultures despite having normal chest films and sputum smears.³ Kent et al. obtained daily cultures for one month from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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