PREVALENCE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AMONG DIABETICS pot

... significant. Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Group-I (table 3) Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetics: Total number of patients having diabeties and pulmonary tuberculosis ... Prevalence = 9.5%. Table 3: Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetics. Total diabetic patients 95 Total patients with pulmonary tubercu- los...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... healthcare systems of heavily infected countries like Ethiopia. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis and their immunologic profiles among HIV positive ... period. A total of 422 subjects were enrolled in the study considering 95% confidence, 5% margin of error, 50% of prevalence of TB (since there was no previous es- timate of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... imprisonment. Five (19.2%) of the TB cases had history of pre vious treatment for TB. The prevalence of history of previous treatment among those who were not found to have smear positive pulmonary TB was ... 18.5kg/m 2 ). Conclusions: There is hig h prevalence of TB in North Gondar Prison with possible active transmission of TB within the prison. There was a high prevale...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... can 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. Pulmonary tuberculosis may be ... find out the frequency of sputum positive Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) cases among pulmonary tuberculosis patients and to determine those patients who are the potential source o...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... isolation of M. tuberculosis in the Southwestern part of the country. It is supported by Damien Foundation, Belgium through the NTCP of the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja. Study population: Of ... Ibadan metropolis. Ibadan is the capital city of Oyo State of Nigeria with a population of about ve million 6 . The TB laboratory of the Department of Medical Microb...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... compare with that of the available national prevalence rate of all forms of TB among the general population aged 15 years and above. This helped understand the magnitude of PTB among HWs engaged ... culture-negative. Prevalence of smear-negative PTB among the HWs Ten of the total 673 CXR provider-participants were confirmed as patients of smear- negative PTB. Al...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... Journal of Tuberculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA 195 Table 1 : Prevalence of tuberculosis in India according to screening tools used 10 Survey Period of ... Jouinal of Tuheiculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA 197 Based on the above exercise, one has now access to a fresh set of estimates...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... diagnosis of tuberculosis in a few hours with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity 4 . The potential of PCR as a diagnostic test for tuberculosis has been investigated in a large number of ... individual with recent history of extra -pulmonary tuberculosis was dead. Three individuals were immediate family contacts of tuberculosis cases, two of whom were on ant...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... respective localisations of the first lesion of primary and that of secondary disease. In explanation of the localisation of the first lesion of primary disease in the absence of acquired resistance ... Conference of Tuberculosis at Vienna in 1907. ‘Sir Robert Philip’s Collected Papers on Tuberculosis, 1937, ‘ p. 99. Ind. J. Tub., Vol. IV, No. 4. The Classification...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... bacteriologic confirmation of current disease or both TABLE 1: Location of Pulmonary Consolidation in 73 Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Site of consoldabon Type of Pul monary Tuberculosis Primary (n=17) Postpnmary (n=56) Right ... should lead to suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis. The pathogen- esis of pulmonary tuberculosis is also discussed. Materials and M...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20