Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis Are Frequently Positive for Anti–Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies, but Their Sera Also React With Unmodified Arginine-Containing Peptide potx

... Rheumatology Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis Are Frequently Positive for Anti–Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies, but Their Sera Also React With Unmodified Arginine-Containing Peptide Prasanthi ... anti-CCP positive sera for CCP versus that for unmodified arginine-containing peptide (CAP) was examined in patients with TB and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... conducted to evaluate the C-reactive protein (CRP) in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis at Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad, Pakistan. All patients with pulmonary tuberculosis > 12 years ... present) were also evaluated as having pulmonary male and female subjects with tuberculosis respectively. tuberculosis. All the patients were taken consecutively The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... group with pulmonary TB and extrapulmonary involvement and the group with pulmonary TB without extrapulmonary involvement were performed using Pearson’s chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test for ... levels were associated with extrapulmonary involvement in patients with pulmonary TB. Patients with bilateral lung involvement were more likely to have extrapulmonary involv...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... 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 primary ... than Rs. 12,000). Forty-eight patients <46.12% were house wives, 10 patients (9.61%) were unemployed. Most of the patients were under weight for their age and height. 24...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... in Iranian Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Ali Akbar Amirzargar*, Abdol Ali Danesh, Farideh Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein Niknam, Behrouz Nikbin ABSTRACT Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis ... investigated in a group of patients with infiltrative tuberculosis from Bashkorstan population of Russia, they found that the frequency of TNF2 allele in tuberculosis patients...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... rays are obtained for patients who has respiratory complaints and for patients who applied for he- alth report to start a new job. The sputum examination and culture are done in patients tuberculosis ... tuberculosis in household contact individuals with pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Methods: The total number of recorded in-house contacts of 153 pulmo- nary tub...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... they are confused in dealing with it. A coping crisis occurs. Therefore, healthcare workers should not only provide biotherapy to college students with PTB, but also offer psychological support for ... majority of the participants also reported that they knew little infor- mation about PTB before they were diagnosed with PTB. They got information by communicating with other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... associated with resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis in the Chinese Han population. KIR genes apparently have a role in resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis. Key words: Pulmonary tuberculosis; ... possible association of KIR polymorphism with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han. We analyzed 15 KIR genes in 109 pulmonary tuberculosis patients an...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... patient presenting with tuberculosis are in the productive age with unemployment and low literacy level serving as potent risk factors for tuberculosis in the study area. There was a positive relationship ... the patient presenting with tuberculosis are in the productive age with unemployment and low literacy level serving as potent risk factors for tuberculosis i...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... criteria for NTM lung disease but met the clinical criteria was defined as a ‘possible NTM case’. 8 For three patients the AFB smear was positive and TB-PCR was also positive, while for four patients ... Flute for sputum sampling in patients suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Methods: Thirty-four patients who were not expecto- rating sputum, but for whom s...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20