True status of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis defaulters in Malawi pot

... difficulties in obtaining medicine in general? Yes 89.5% No 10.5% Were financial problems incurred to obtain medicine? Yes 55.6% No 44.4% Were there difficulties in obtaining medicine due to patients' ... unknown) Total 101 Pulmonary tuberculosis defaulters in Malawi 387Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1999, 77 (5) Only 22 patients were true defaulters acc...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... higher in patients than in controls. Low concentrations of serum retinol can be due to a number of factors, including re- duced intake or reduced absorption of fat. In addition, the infection ... Vitamin A levels to be associated with more extensive or severe disease, and low levels of retinol binding protein, prealbumin and albumin [2]. They also found that a high dose o...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... targets working in novel pathways involved in the host containment of infection with TB, further providing insights on the mechanism of this disease, that could previously be neglected in hypothesis ... Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138672. 2 Infectious Disease, Genome Institute of Singapore, 60 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138672. 3 Dept. of Inter...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... in TB control in 1993 and has offi- cially reported 100% DOTS coverage in all nine pro- vinces since 2003 [3]. A good functioning primary health care system is crucial in the implementation of DOTS. ... Belgium. 4 Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program, Lusaka, Zambia. 5 Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Nationa...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... district in Tamilnadu, south India Objective: To investigate the yield of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases by different symptoms status and suggest predominant symptoms for detection of cases in the ... category of symptomatics. DISCUSSION The findings of the three surveys showed the relative importance of cough as a predominant symptom employed in screening the populat...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... rates of nearly 19% in extra- pulmonary TB (EPTB) and approximately 28% in smear- negative PTB (including EPTB). This and other related studies have indicated a background of HIV infection in these ... analysis and interpretation of results and writing of the manuscript and as corresponding author. FE contributed to interpretation of the data and writing of the manuscript....

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... analyses The feasibility of conducting quality of life interviews among TB patients using the MOS in urban Uganda setting was evaluated by examining the percent of miss- ing item responses, interviewer-reported ... informa- tion. The study nurses were not involved in the routine care of patients at the individual clinics. Patient’sHIV sero -status was obtained verbally from the i...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... are in- fected yearly [1], making it a major public health concern in the country. TB in the Philippines ranked fifth in the 10 leading causes of death and fifth in the 10 leading causes of illness, ... finding in pa- tients with POTB. This would be a logical finding in our diagnosed PTB patient population since choroidal tuber- cles and retinal vasculitis indicate hematogen...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in resource poor and TB endemic setting where the TB case finding has become problematic. The pattern of ranking of symptoms by those working in DOTS centre ... clinics during the diagnosis of childhood pulmonary TB. Weight gain was usually, seen to be the first indication of recovery during treatment. This finding underlines the per...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... the extent of multi-drug resistance (MDR) strains, indicating the quality of TB control in the coun- try. Knowledge of the prevalence of drug resist- ance in new cases guides the selection of drugs used ... Proportions of resistance patterns were determined using a num- ber of resistant cases using as a denominator. Resistance to at least one drug was found in 304 (29.7%)...

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