Predictors of relapse among pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated in a DOTS programme in South India pot

... INT J TUBERC LUNG DIS 9(5):556–561 © 2005 The Union Predictors of relapse among pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated in a DOTS programme in South India A. Thomas, P. G. Gopi, T. Santha, ... pro- gramme in South India to examine the rate of relapse and predictors of relapse among a cohort of sputum smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis...

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... Uganda Fax: 256-414-532591 Email: nakwagala@yahoo.com Predictors of treatment failure among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Mulago hospital, Uganda Namukwaya E 1 , *Nakwagala FN 1 , Mulekya ... Sadacharam K, Gopi P, Chandrasekaran S, et al. Status of smear TB patients at 2-3 years after initiation of treatment under a DOTS programme. Ind J Tuberc. 2007; 54:199-203...

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... uveitis cases. It has bee n estimated to be under 1% in the USA, 4% in China, 6% in Italy, 7% in Japan, and 16% in Saudi Arabia [10]. A Southeast Asian neighbor, Thailand, reported a 2.2% systemic ... tuberculosis and found ocu- lar involvement in 18 patients (18%) [7]. In Malawi, Africa, a 2.8% prevalence of choroidal granuloma in 109 patients with fever and tu...

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... among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients from an Urban Setting, with a Long-Running DOTS Program in Zambia Chanda Mulenga, 1, 2 Allan Chonde, 1 Innocent C. Bwalya, 1 Nathan Kapata, 3 Mathilda Kakungu-Simpungwe, 4 Sven ... beginning of the HIV era in Zambia. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the prevalence of all forms of TB in Zambia at 707/100,000 and ranks Z...

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... Atsbi-Wenberta, Saesie-Tsaedaemba, Enderta, Tahtay-Koraro, Laelay-Maichew, Raya-Azebo, Adwa, Offla, Asgede-Tsimbla, Setit-Humera , Kafta-Humera, Korem, Adigrat, Ahferom, and Axum districts (Figure ... collection of data, analysis and interpretation of results and writing of the manuscript and as corresponding author. FE contributed to interpretation of the data and writing of the ma...

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... RESEARC H Open Access Feasibility, reliability and validity of health-related quality of life questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study Harriet ... and well being of TB patients so that individual patient specific needs are addressed to attain the best clinical or treatment outcome, and thus increasing the likelihood of...

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... streptomycin (in addition to rifampicin, isoniazid). Thus, the prevalence of MDR-TB among category- Table I. Baseline characteristics of 196 category II pulmonary TB patients Baseline characteristic ... prevalence of 17.2 per cent among previously treated cases in India 3 . Our ndings carry signicant importance because there have been scarce data on the prevalence...

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... workers at two designated DOTS Centers in urban city of Ibadan, Nigeria A. O. Kehinde, A. Baba, R .A. Bakare, O.M. Ige * , C.F. Gbadeyanka ** & O.E. Adebiyi Departments of Medical Microbiology ... positivity is often associated with poor quality of sputum samples, deciencies in preparation of stains, staining procedure or examination of stained slides 14 . The fact...

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... negative smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Dar es Salaam. Methods Study setting, design and population The study was conducted in Dar es Salaam at Amana, Temeke and Mwananyamala District ... Mwananyamala, Amana and Temeke District Hospitals, and Tandale, Magomeni and Mnazi Mmoja health centres, were counseled about the study. After obtaining informed consent, the pat...

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... controlling against all the rest of the variables. Ethical issue The study was conducted after ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Review Board of the Univer- sity of Gondar and after informed ... conception and design, data collection, patient clinical evaluation, data analysis, and drafting the manuscript. BA, FA, MT, WT, and YB were involved in study design, data colle...

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