I'm really worried. I've been having a constant temperature between 99.2 and 99.6 for over a month and a half now. We did all the tests like blood and urine cultures and they came back negative. I've taken the usual antibiotics but they didn't help. My doctor suggested a chest CT and now there's a suspicion of TB. He mentioned getting a TB test, but I don't have any cough or cold, so we can't do a sputum test. Could you take a look at the CT scan and let me know if it really looks like TB? Also, are there any other confirmatory tests we can do for TB apart from the sputum test?

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Dr Dr Khaleel Ur Rahim

General Practitioner

MBBS
1+ Yrs

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CBNAAT is the confirmatory test for tuberculosis

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donot take it for lifetime, take whenever you have symptoms take for 1 week

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