MYCOBACTERIAL SPECIES CAUSING PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AT THE KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, ACCRA, GHANA pptx

... literature on manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) among elderly patients in India. The aim of the present study was to compare the clinical, radiological and laboratory manifestations ... of delay in the institution of ATT and there by facilitates silent spread of the disease. 1 The current study had certain limitations. First, the number of patients enrolled was...

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... with the substituent on the amino moiety of the substrate, con- firming that the formation of acyl enzyme (AE) is the rate-limiting step of the reaction. The Hammett plot of log(k cat,R ⁄ k cat,H ) ... anilides indicates that a change in the reaction pathway or the rate-limiting step occurs depending on the structure of the substrate. For the model substrate acetanilide...

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... phos- phorylation rate seen at the concentration x of H 4 biopterin. v o is the rate in the absence of H 4 biopterin and v min is the rate at very high concentrations of H 4 biopterin. The observed ... transition that modifies the intra-subunit interaction between the regulatory and the catalytic domains. This interaction is followed by the formation of a catalytically ac...

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... located at the UCH. The laboratory is a designated facility for isolation of M. tuberculosis in the Southwestern part of the country. It is supported by Damien Foundation, Belgium through the ... depends on the settings, occupation, patient population and effectiveness of the TB control measures 2 . The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed practical Pulmonar...

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... systematic errors and biases. Although the aim of the qualitative portion of the study was to supplement the quantitative part, the way the response was recoded and lack of detail separate discus- sion ... affect the health-seeking behaviour of patients, but also could affect control strategy, thereby sustaining the transmission of the disease within the community [11-14]....

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... obtained. Burden of pulmonary tuberculosis - the current corresponding to the population escalation taking estimates place in the country. For developing an appropriate strategy for combating tuberculosis ... 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...

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... like PCR for the laboratory detection of Mycobacteria in respiratory and other tissue samples from tuberculosis suspects has thus attracted enormous attention. The present study demonstrates the utility and ... tested. Of these, 123 samples were from individuals suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis, and 21 samples were from hospital patients having a disease other than tuber...

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... believes that the ‘cycle of the infection’ can Ind. J. Tub., Vol. IV, No. 4. 156 THE CLASSIFICATION OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS thus be expressed, but the fallacies of the Ranke classification make ... parts in the world, into which M. tuberculosis has never penetrated, and on the other extreme there are certain areas in the Middle West and North West of the Unite...

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... Selec- tion was stratified based on patients’ HIV status and patient’s gender. The stratification wa s done during the selection and where randomly selected number of patients in a stratum got at least ... (90.1%) Retreatment 24 (9.9%) Reasons for retreatment - Relapse, 20 (83.3% of the retreated) - Default 2 (8.3% of the retreated ) - Treatment failure 2 (8.3% of the retreated) H...

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