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Of 162 patients with chronic interstitial lung disease, eight (seven of them male) had active tuberculosis. This was 4.5 times higher than the incidence in the general population. The frequency of tuberculosis was similar in patients treated with and without corticosteroids.
Shachor et al. (1989) studied this question.
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