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title: "Culture conversion"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_conversion"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T07:27:31.571045+00:00"
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Culture conversion is a diagnostic criteria indicating the point at which samples taken from a person infected with a tuberculosis can no longer produce tuberculosis cell cultures. Culture conversion is a positive prognostic marker indicating that a person is cured of, or is recovering from, tuberculosis.


== References ==