Hospital Control and Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, Peru pot

... hospital in the eighteenth century and continues to serve Hospital Control and Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, Peru Field F. Willingham*†‡ Tracy L. Schmitz,‡§ ... both industrialized and developing countries and has been linked to inadequate hospital infection control practices (5-7). We investigated the potential for no...

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... are increased due to the need for installing and maintaining IR [15-17]. IR are still scarce and infec- tion control measures in health care facilities are at an early stage of development in ... or possible X-ray findings and atyp- ical findings (Table 1). Typical were those considered as having any parenchymal infiltrate or cavity localized in the upper zone (defined as the ar...

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... 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 and in ... 13) and more likely to die of the disease (6, 14). Age-related changes in the tuber- culin skin reaction and a high incidence of underlying illnesses also play a role in prol...

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... treatment in our patients. These delays included patient delay, institu- tional delay, diagnostic delay, and delay in the treat- ment. Both patient and institutional delays result in increased infection ... WWW. MEDSCIMONIT .COM Clinical Research © Med Sci Monit, 2004; 10(2): CR62-67 PMID: 14737045 CR62 Factors affecting delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tubercul...

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... presentation (range: 1-90 days), including fever in 51%, cough in 14%, dyspnea in 8%, night sweats in 6%. Interventions: Twenty-two patients were treated for tuberculosis during hospitalization. The other ... simple in early cases. (6) On the other hand, severe fulminating pulmonary tuberculosis remains a challenge. Tuberculosis required intensive care admission a count...

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... being o ne) and with smear and radiological examinations at the u nit i tself - suggest a potentially lower delay in diagnos- ing and treating tuberculosis. In Brazil, studies carried out in health ... diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients attending a university teaching hospital. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 1997, 1:326–332. 7. Madebo T, Lindtjorn B: De...

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... GMD, participated in study design, data analysis and interpretation. DS participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up. GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript. FA involved ... Perceptions of Gender and Tuberculosis in a South Indian Urban Community. Indian J Tuberc 2008, 55:9-14. 30. Watkins RE, Plant AJ: Does smoking explain sex diffe...

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... distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Research article "Cough officer screening" improves detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospital in- patients Ching-Hsiung ... notifiable infec- tious disease, and several hospital outbreaks have been reported in recent years. The incidence of TB has increased from 62 pe...

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... 2001 Coexisting Bronchogenic Carcinoma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Same Lobe: Radiologic Findings and Clinical Significance Objective: Bronchogenic carcinoma can mimic or be masked by pulmonary tuberculosis ... pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), and the aim of this study was to describe the radiologic findings and clinical significance of bronchogenic carcinoma and pu...

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... fluoroquinolone and at least one of the three following injectable drugs: amikacin, capreomycin or kanamycin in addition to isoniazid and rifampin. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is defined as a strain ... describe the radiological findings of XDR pulmonary TB and to compare the observed findings with findings of DS TB and non-XDR MDR TB in non-AIDS patients. MATERIALS AND MET...

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