Update: The Radiographic Features of Pulmonary Tuberculosis pot

... spectrum of radiographic abnormalities. During the primary phase of the disease these include pulmonary consolidation (50%), which often involves the middle or lower lobes or the anterior segment of ... con- cerning the status of the PPD skin test or a high degree of clinical suspicion of active tuberculosis was provided to the initial interpreters in less than...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... 1 Introduction This paper examines the possibility of automatically discovering the lexieal features of a language. There is strong evidence that the set of possible lexical fea- tures which ... used. If the set of possible lexieal features is indeed unbounded, then it cannot be part of the innate Universal Gram- mar and must be learned. Even if the set is not...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... India, the absolute number of cases in the country had to be constantly revised upwards, The case for revision of estimates The global resurgence of tuberculosis, especially in the context of ... providing an estimate of the tuberculosis burden in India 4 . It is presently intended to discuss some of the problems here, in arriving at the estimate of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... amplification using the principle of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has the potential for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in a few hours with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity 4 . The potential of ... individuals were tested. Of these, 123 samples were from individuals suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis, and 21 samples were from hospital patients...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... character of the disease, but in the epidemiological picture, arid this varies according to the prevalence of the factor of infection on one hand and the factor of resistance on the other. These ... respectively. The late results of collapse therapy and early results of chemotherapy contribut- ed new facts regarding the process of regression of the diseas...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... the development of active TB. 5 Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common form of TB even in the elderly although EPTB is more frequently seen than in the young. 6,7 Presentation of PTB in the elderly often ... only. 1 There is scarcity of published literature on manifestations of TB especially pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among elderly patients from India. The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... live in the northeast of Ethiopia, confined to the most arid part of the country, where there is least access to educational, health and other social services. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major ... the control of the disease make up 1 component of the 6 basic components of the "Stop TB Strategy" of the World Health Organization (WHO) [15]. Acco...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... also influenced by features of the potential recipient of the organism (contact) especially the immune status, and by the environment in which they live. Examination of the sputum smear for ... affect any organ of the body but in two third of the cases it involves the lung parenchyma. 2,3 This form of tuberculosis is called pulmonary tuberculosis. Pulm...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... replication in the lung during the short-term infection of mice [109,110], the negative regulation of their synthesis by r M negates the possibility of its role in virulence during the early course of infection ... in the start codon of sigK, and certain mutations in the coding region of its downstream regulator, rskA, account for the variable production of these...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20