Prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among Category II pulmonary tuberculosis patients pot

... SHARMA et al: PREVALENCE OF MDR-TB AMONG CATEGORY II PULMONARY TB CASES 313 Table II. Pattern of drug resistance among category II pulmonary TB patients Pattern of drug resistance Cat II patients ... isoniazid). Thus, the prevalence of MDR-TB among category- Table I. Baseline characteristics of 196 category II pulmonary TB patients Baseline c...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... on the finding of 20% prevalence of respiratory symptoms among patients over 5 years of age (World Health Organization 2004) and attendance for the 24 clinics; a sample size of 1500 patients was ... Prevalence of respiratory symptoms and cases suspicious for tuberculosis among public health clinic patients in Afghanistan, 2005–2006: Perspectives on recognition and ref...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... posi- tive/smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients. These HIV positive/smear negative patients are included in the MoHSW prevalence estimates. Pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were also ... beginning of the epidemic [14]. The proportion of patients with past history of using anti -tuberculosis drugs was higher in HIV positive than in HIV negative pulmonary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... 1598-6357 e Risk of Obstructive Lung Disease by Previous Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Country with Intermediate Burden of Tuberculosis We evaluated the effects of previous pulmonary tuberculosis ... high and increasing prevalence of obstructive lung disease in patients who are being treated for pulmonary TB (3). A previous epidemiological study found that the preval...

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... la. Chest radiograph of 31-year-old white woman demonstrating bilateral upper zonal linear densities simulating shadows of pulmonary tuberculosis. lated those of pulmonary tuberculosis: (1) unilateral ... with the lesions of pulmonary tuberculosis, especially when earlier radiographs have not as yet become available. Among 616 patients with a tissue-con- firmed di...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... other patients had active tuberculosis at the time of death. Of the 29 HIV infected patients who died, 10 expired in the rst month of treatment. None of the HIV seropositive tuberculosis patients ... (82%) of the 162 HIV negative patients being in the age group of 21 to 40 yr. Outcome after 6 months of anti-TB treatment: At the end of 6 months of treatment,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... currently recommended for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries, where more than 90% of tuberculosis cases occur (Tuberculosis, 2005; Foulds et al., ... communities of the developing world. One third of the world’s population has latent TB which may later develop into an active form of the disease. TB has also become the leadi...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 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

... studies include rates of ocular in- volvement among patients with pulmonary TB (PTB). Donahue in 1967 reported a prevalence of ocular TB of 1.46% in 10,524 patients from a tuberculosis sanitarium in ... Jr Abstract Background: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of presumed ocular tuberculosis among diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis pati...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetics. Total diabetic patients 95 Total patients with pulmonary tubercu- losis 9 Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis 9.5% Group -II (table 4) Prevalence ... of pulmonary tuberculosis in Non- diabetics: Total number of patients in study group -II (Non-diabetics) = 96. Total number of Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20