FREQUENCY OF SPUTUM POSITIVE AFB CASES AMONG PATIENTS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN pot

... http://www.ayubmed.edu.pk/JAMC/PAST/22-2/Khattak.pdf 56 FREQUENCY OF SPUTUM POSITIVE AFB CASES AMONG PATIENTS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN Mohammad Ishaq Khattak, Ihsanullah*, ... Abbottabad, Pakistan Objective: This study was aimed to find out the frequency of sputum positive Acid Fast Bacilli (...

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... were AFB stain positive and 80 (69%) were culture positive. Out of 33 patients who had at least one positive culture, only 62% were AFB stain positive. Of the 22 patients treated for tuberculosis ... hand, severe fulminating pulmonary tuberculosis remains a challenge. Tuberculosis required intensive care admission a count for 1-3% of all tuberculosis cases...

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... or because of interference of TB diagnosis by other severe symptoms among patients in the ICU during Stage I. In fact, our COS system identified 42 patients (22.8% of total TB patients) in Stage ... coughing. All cough officers received training in our department of infectious disease control with regard to methods for questioning patients, and for recording cough cond...

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... diagnosis of TB in the elderly. A positive spu- tum AFB smear was obtained in 57.1% of elderly and in 57.5 % of young TB patients, and a positive AFB culture was ob- tained in 70.6% of the elderly ... (24), sputum AFB smears yielded positive results in 45% patients with pulmonary TB, and sputum cultures were positive in 53% of elderly patients. Da...

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... early identification of extrapulmonary involvement is crucial. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clini- cal predictors of the presence of extrapulmonary involvement in patients with pulmonary ... analysis for pre- dicting combined extra -pulmonary involvement in patients with pulmonary TB EPTB, pulmonary TB with extra -pulmonary involvement; sA...

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... qualitative study exploring the experi- ences of college students with PTB in the mainland of China. The target population included inpatients and outpatients. The use of in- depth interviews elicited ... formal interviews were conducted from October to November 2008. Inpatients were interviewed individually in a private office; outpatients were interviewed in a place convenient...

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... prevalence in tuberculosis patients, although one study described the cause of lower-respiratory-tract infections in HIV -positive patients. In the remaining three studies the distribution of type of ... 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...

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... those of Mendez et al. (2006). Smear -positive patients are the main source of infection in a community. Only 10% of individuals develop clinical disease. The immune response in the remaining individuals ... effects of KIR genes during the development of TB remain unclear in the Chinese population. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the KIR genes in PTB pa...

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... groups. DISCUSSION Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly common in the elderly and burden of the disease in them is likely to continue to increase substantially. 3,4 Moreover, with increasing age, a state of ... with ageing and hence must be kept in mind during the diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients. 11 Several findings of the current study are in accordance with t...

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