Clinical response of newly diagnosed HIV seropositive & seronegative pulmonary tuberculosis patients with the RNTCP Short Course regimen in Pune, India doc

... Clinical response of newly diagnosed HIV seropositive & seronegative pulmonary tuberculosis patients with the RNTCP Short Course regimen in Pune, India S. Tripathy, A. Anand, V. Inamdar, ... testing. The current RNTCP regimens in India are highly effective in the management of tuberculosis patients without HIV infection. There...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... studying the CD4 lymphocyte dynamics during TB treatment; both in HIV uninfected and HIV infected TB patients. Further, as this study was initiated before the general recommendation of initiating ... effect of th e TB treatment. This find- ing is in line with results obtained from patients from Uganda [22] in which 38 HIV infected sputum smear positive TB patients...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... et al With the information on the size of previously infected population, with or without recent reinfection, it is possible to construct the profile of the population in respect of tuberculous ... values of B and C could be worked out. Findings Size of the population with "recent reinfection (RI) " and "no recent reinfection (NRI) "...

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... preventive ther- apy is an intervention t hat has been part of the packa ge of care for people living with HIV. In this tuberculosis preventive therapy, patients with latent infection of M. tuberculosis ... proportion of patients with past history of using anti -tuberculosis drugs was higher in HIV positive than in HIV negative pulmonary tuberculosis...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... after being diagnosed with TB it took before starting medication; all the respondents reported that they were started on treatment within one week of diagnosis, with 86% starting within two days. When ... respondents an income was dependent on their daily efforts and therefore may not afford the time at the health centre. Further, the period of the study, were the early...

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... quitting smoking. KEY WORDS: tuberculosis; DOTS; India; relapse IN THE REVISED National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of India, based on the DOTS strategy, patients are treated with an intermittent short- course ... ensuring that all patients were regular in taking their drugs, whereas in the programme all doses are supervised only in the intensive pha...

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... Research (InTBIR) 27 . In particular, the project is expected to identify the most effective clinical interventions taking into consideration the type of brain injury and the history of the patient, ... efficacy of therapeutic vaccines. FP7-HEALTH-2013- INNOVATION-1. The aim is to advance promising new therapeutic vaccines into clinical safety and efficacy testing....

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... corresponding author. FE contributed to interpretation of the data and writing of the manuscript. AA has participated in the design of the study, the interpretation of results and writing of the manuscript. ... PTB (including EPTB). This and other related studies have indicated a background of HIV infection in these types of TB [45]. Thus, on the other hand,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... understand the functioning and well being of TB patients so that individual patient specific needs are addressed to attain the best clinical or treatment outcome, and thus increasing the likelihood of ... measured HRQoL, HIV status, and socio-demographic informa- tion. The study nurses were not involved in the routine care of patients at the individual clinics. Pat...

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... Jr Abstract Background: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of presumed ocular tuberculosis among diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary government hospital in the Philippines ... uveitis Background According to the World Health Organization, the Philippines ranks fourth in the world for the number of cases of tub...

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