Can sputum culture diagnose tuberculosis

If sputum culture test tuberculosis bacilli can be diagnosed, but because tuberculosis bacilli grow very slowly, at least a month, so often sputum culture is negative, culture can not tuberculosis bacilli, sputum smear, if sputum smear can find tuberculosis bacilli, can also be diagnosed with tuberculosis. First, the diagnosis of tuberculosis generally needs to be combined with the patient's symptoms and examination, as well as imaging data. Normal can be a diagnosis, after the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules to carry out standardized anti-tuberculosis treatment, choose the first line of anti-tuberculosis drugs isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, pyrazinamide. After standardized anti-tuberculosis, most patients can be cured, patients in anti-tuberculosis period to strengthen nutrition, to regularly review liver and kidney function, electrolytes, blood routine, erythrocyte sedimentation, sputum examination, chest ct, observe the adverse reactions and efficacy of drugs.