A member asked:

Chest x-ray result- fibronodular shadows seen in the left apex ppd - 20mm sputum smear 1st&2nd - afb = 0. do i have an active or inactive tb?

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More testing: neg. sputum smears do not exclude active TB, you need a quanterferon gold blood test and a bronchoscopy to exclude active TB looking at an old CXR is also worthwhile more history and symptoms are lacking in your question

Answered 6/10/2016

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