Prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis among prisoners in North Gondar Zone Prison, northwest Ethiopia doc

... RES E AR C H A R T I C L E Open Access Prevalence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis among prisoners in North Gondar Zone Prison, northwest Ethiopia Beyene Moges 1* , Bemnet Amare 2 , ... to determine the prevalence of tuberculosis in a prison system of North Gondar Zone. Methods: An active case-finding survey in North Gondar Prison wa...

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... After obtaining informed consent, the patien ts were interviewed and the information obtained, including past history of anti -tuberculosis drugs for prophylactic and/or treatment of active tuberculosis ... remained consistent for several years since the beginning of the epidemic [14]. The proportion of patients with past history of using anti -tuberculosis drugs was higher in...

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... 2007 Diagnosis of smear- negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changes Haileyesus Getahun, Mark Harrington, ... cation of infectious tuberculosis cases by microscopic examination of sputum smears to identify acid-fast bacilli. The HIV epidemic has led to huge rises in incidence of...

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... question. Concerning previous history of tuberculin skin test (bubble under the skin), 36.9 per cent of the subjects had a positive tuberculin skin test in the past while 63.1 per cent of them had ... using known AFB slide and slide stained with egg albumin as positive and negative controls respectively. The results was read according to the grading system of the Interna...

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... human eat. - Taking food together or sharing of food or bed or materials. - Caring/nursing of TB patients. - Mixing with patients. - Inhaling patients’ breath during direct interaction (patients ... stimulated substantial investment in administrative, personal and engineering infections control measures (Table 1) in many hospitals in the HICs, leading to successful reducti...

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... was obtained from the TRC laboratory records. In addi- tion, trained health workers interviewed patients within a week of starting treatment using a pre-coded inter- view schedule to elicit information ... General of Health Services. New Delhi, India: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2003. 9 Balasubramanian R. Fully intermittent 6-month regimens for pulmonary tuberculosis i...

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... training traditional healers on and involving them in the TB detection strategy might reduce the HSD. Determinants of total delay The centralization of the point of diagnosis of TB, the referral ... Chauvin 1,2 Abstract Background: Tuberculosis remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in low-resource countries. One contagious patient can infect 10 to 20 c...

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... Lainez et al. Prevalence of respiratory symptoms in Afghanistan 568 ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd probability of receiving a diagnosis, indicating that prior care-seeking did not increase clinical ... preva- lence among participants having acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear, and accuracy of health facility AFB microscopy. The information obtained will inform provider training effort...

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