Publications by authors named "Ghulam Muqtada Khan"
Objective: To determine the yield of Gastric lavage (GL) in non-expectorating adults with suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) and accuracy of GL-AFB smear with GL-GeneXpert (GXP) by taking AFB culture as gold standard.
Methods: Cross-sectional study on suspected PTB patients was done at Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases during period 16 July 2020 till 15 January 2021. Adult patients of either gender suspected to have PTB and not expectorating were included.