�Is Abdominal lymph node sized 12 mm a sign of abdominal kochs.�Is high grade fever a sign of abdominal kochs. � how much time taken by AKT to act in body. �Patients taking AKT from 7 days but still fever is persist. What is the reason. � Patients having mild pleural effusion and moderate ascites but fluid culture shows no growth of m.tuberculin .ADA level in underlimit, mantoux test is negative. please give your precious suggestion.

Dr. Sajeev KumarGeneral Physician33yrs exp

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Abdominal lymph nodes can be a sign f Koch's * The duration of drugs to be taken is 9 months usually * The fever will take a week or two to reduce once the treatment is started *Serum ADA activity with high specificity percentage may be a useful alternative test in restricted resource areas to rule out diagnosis of PTB. However, serum ADA activity is not a useful tool for TB diagnosis. * The active bacilli may be hiding in deeper tissues and the diagnosis with the findings you said is Koch's and need to be treated completely.  

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