Tài liệu Smear microscopy and culture conversion rates among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients by HIV status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ppt

... RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open Access Smear microscopy and culture conversion rates among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients by HIV status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Mbazi ... [15]. Conclusion Conversion rate of standard smear microscopy and fluorescence microscopy did not differ between HIV positive and HIV negative pulmonary...

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... finding in most developing countries. This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin skin testing. Under ideal circumstances, a test for tuberculosis ... observed in 29.4 % smear negative samples thereby indicating the superiority of culture over smear microscopy, whereas no growth was observed in 4.6 % smear posi...

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... identification and susceptibility testing. The PLPH must report positive smear and culture results to the zone MOH or First Nations and Inuit Health (FNIH) MOH if the individual lives in a reserve ... transmission.  Results of sputum smear and cultures for AFB. Individuals whose sputum is smear- positive are more infectious than those whose sputum smears are negative....

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... default rates of nearly 19% in extra- pulmonary TB (EPTB) and approximately 28% in smear- negative PTB (including EPTB). This and other related studies have indicated a background of HIV infection in these ... health-care ser vices [16]. These differences between this study and other study results could be explained by differences in sample size among the studies, di...

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... an increase in loan rates is estimated. In the other case, we estimate the model restricting the observations to be either no changes or decreases in loan rates. Table 7 gives the results of estimating ... rates are slower to increase when other market interest rates rise than they are to decrease when market rates fall. 15 Mester and Saunders (1995) analyze changes in the...

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... Pennacchi, and Peter Ritchken, 2008, “Estimating Real and Nom- inal Term Structures Using Treasury Yields, In ation, In ation Forecasts and In ation Swap Rates, ” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working ... in LIBOR rates into changes in bank debt risk premiums and changes in a factor specific to the interbank market that includes a liquid- ity premium. It also allows hyp...

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