The bleach method improves the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in Laos ppt

... con rms the bene ts of the bleach method for the microscopic case detection of pulmonary TB. This rustic, simple and inexpensive method could easily be integrated into the routine of a peripheral ... ect the better quality of examinations routinely per- formed in a central laboratory, 5 it strongly suggests the feasibility of its implementation in the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... provided the original work is properly cited. Research article "Cough officer screening" improves detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospital in- patients Ching-Hsiung Lin1, Cheng-Hung ... to the ICU and paediatrics departments after completion of Stage I. By excluding the TB patients in the ICU, we found that 81% and 100% of TB patients in the Int...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... both the groups. DISCUSSION Tuberculosis is becoming increasingly common in the elderly and burden of the disease in them is likely to continue to increase substantially. 3,4 Moreover, with increasing ... with ageing and hence must be kept in mind during the diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients. 11 Several findings of the current study are in accordance with t...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... generation of detail additional information. This also hindered an in- depth analysis of the results. Hence, the findings from the qualitative portion of the study might be considered preliminary. Conclusion Our ... number (20.4%) of the interviewees thought that men were the highest risk group to get PTB as well as playing a major role in the epidemiology of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... that they had taken into cognisance the findings of most of the surveys wherein X-ray was the initial screening tool. They had chosen to ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial ... 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 the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... group for the patients admitted for screening for pulmonary tuberculosis. The institutional review boards of all participating institutions approved the research. Masking procedures Clinicians ... iterated n times, employing nÀ1 subjects in the training set and one subject in the prediction set. The resulting values of T pos –T neg were employed as predictors of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... level of the carina; the middle zones as areas between the level of thecarinaandtheoriginoftheinferiorpulmonary veins; and the lower zones as areas below the origin of the inferior pulmonary veins. ... with imaging times of about 120 seconds we obtained enough slices to assess the entire lung. The in- room time, including positioning the patient on the examinati...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... and impact. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine 2010;16 (3):271–84. Perkins 2002 Perkins MD, Kritski AL. Diagnostic testing in the control of tuberculosis. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80(6):512–3. Perkins ... Organization 2002;80(6):512–3. Perkins 2006 Perkins MD, Small PM. Admitting defeat. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2006;10...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... notifi- cations (individual investigation sheet of the Ministry of Health) of all adolescents living in the cities of Manaus and Salvador, diag- nosed with TB and notified to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, ... 36.44/100,000 inhabitants in the city of Salvador and from 70.12 to 45.65/100,000 inhabit- ants in the city of Manaus. 7 The present study showed a...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20