Socio-demographic characteristics of patients presenting pulmonary tuberculosis in a primary health centre, Zaria, Nigeria ppt

... lie in making the diagnosis. The study was aimed at examining the socio-demographic characteristics of patients presenting at a primary health care centre in Zaria, North-Western Nigeria. The ... Research Paper Socio-demographic characteristics of patients presenting pulmonary tuberculosis in a primary health centre, Zaria, Nigeria Ogboi...

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... Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Abdullah A. Alshimemeri, Yaseen M. Arabi, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Ashwaq Olayan, and Othman Al Harbi) and Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Ziad Memish) Address ... Abdullah Alshimemeri Associate Professor, Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Dean, Postgraduate Education King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences National Guard...

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... number of male patients was higher in the index cases, but the number of female patients was higher in contacts determined active disease. In our opinion, the reason of this findings were that female ... household close interaction and delayed diagnosis in adult TB were the primary reasons of TB transmission to children in Ari- zona, U.S .A [9]. Marks et al. detected...

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... et al. Integration of tuberculosis screening at an HIV voluntary counselling and testing centre in Haiti. Aids 2001; 15: 1875–79. 16 Ramachandran R, Datta M, Subramani R, Baskaran G, Paramasivan ... study, in Malawi, included follow-up data (7 years) and reported that patients with smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis had a signifi cantly higher risk of death than pati...

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... Referral and Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. The emergency ward temporarily admits an d triages patients before transfer to specialized medical units. Approx. 30 patients per day are admitted, of ... Ponsiano Ocama 1,2 , William Worodria 3 , Joseph B Sempa 1 , Benon B Asiimwe 3 , Fred A Katabazi 3 , Achilles Katamba 2 , Laurence Huang 4 , Moses L Joloba 3 and Harriet Mayanja-K...

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... these patients, airway fibrosis and inflammation may play important roles. TB infection is associated with airway bro- sis and the immune response to mycobacteria could cause air- way in ammation, ... lung disease. We performed nationwide representative sampling in Korea, a coun- try with an intermediate TB burden. We also evaluated the risk in patients with minimal TB lesions, a...

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... http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/subjects/OJHAS.html Abstract: A comparative study of HIV associated pulmonary tuberculosis (HIV-PTB) was carried out in Chest Clinics situated in Benin and Irrua environs of Edo State, Nigeria, using microscopical and serological methods. ... enzyme immunoassay (EIA) method (Immunocomb HIV-1 and HIV-2) as described by Orgenics. Data Analys...

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... was 31.4 days, mean referral interval was 22.1 days, mean diagnosis interval was 3.3 days, and mean initiation of treatment interval was 1.4 days. Patient delay was present in 34.8 percent of ... delay. We ascertained lower application intervals for patients hav- ing an index case for tuberculosis and for those with good economic status. The rate of cases having patient delay was...

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... Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, 135 Nanshiao Road, Changhua, Taiwan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Lin et al. BMC ... 42 patients (22.8% of total TB patients) in Stage I and 12 patients (9.6% of total TB patients) in Stage II with TB. Among those 54 patients, 50% of patients initially ha...

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