FREQUENCY OF SPUTUM POSITIVE AFB CASES AMONG PATIENTS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN pot
FREQUENCY OF SPUTUM POSITIVE AFB CASES AMONG PATIENTS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS OF NORTHERN PAKISTAN pot
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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
(...
Tài liệu Clinical presentation and outcome of patients diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis in a large critical care unit docx
... 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...
R"eCseoarcuh garthicl eofficer screening" improves detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospital in-patients pptx
... 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...
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients doc
... 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...
Prevalence and Its Predictors of Extrapulmonary Involvement in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis pdf
... 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...
Tài liệu RTehseaerc he axrtipcleerience of college students with pulmonary tuberculosis in Shaanxi, China: a qualitative study pptx
... 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...
Tài liệu Diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changes docx
...
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...
Tài liệu Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han pdf
... 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...
Tài liệu Manifestations of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Elderly: A Prospective Observational Study from North India pptx
... 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.
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Several findings of the current study are in
accordance with t...
