Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Private Health Sector of Pakistan

... to thank Dr A. N Aggarwal (Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh) for his help in the biostatistical analysis of the data 2008; Vol 50 The Indian Journal of ... physicians and an incorrect initial diagnosis of TB is associated with the potential risk of delay in the institution of ATT and there by facilitates silent spread of...

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... to least variance, allowing retention of a few PCs containing the majority of data variance and discarding the bulk of remaining components that contain small amounts of variance that may be ... group for the patients admitted for screening for pulmonary tuberculosis The institutional review boards of all participating institutions approved the research Masking procedu...

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... pulmonary TB (PTB) at a primary health care centre in Zaria, Kaduna State of Nigeria STUDY POPULATION AND METHODOLOGY This study was conducted in Comprehensive Health Centre, SabonGari, local government ... 0.05 Abubakar, Mr Stephen Odeh of Comprehensive Health Centre, Sabon-Gari, Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, Nigeria for their assistance and coo...

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... 2001 Coexisting Bronchogenic Carcinoma and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Same Lobe DISCUSSION The coexistence of pulmonary TB and bronchogenic carcinoma was first reported by Bayle in 1810 (8) The ... describe the radiologic findings of coexisting bronchogenic carcinoma and pulmonary TB in the same lobe We also discuss the causes of dela...

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... Cooperative Agreement No 663-A-0 0-0 0-0 35 8-0 0 Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry ... of pulmonary tuberculosis Follow up of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis is strictly the responsibility of health workers What are the risk factors for...

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... Cite this article as: Legesse et al., Knowledge and perception of pulmonary tuberculosis in pastoral communities in the middle and Lower Awash Valley of Afar region, Ethiopia BMC Public Health ... reliable information on the prevalence, incidence or community's perception and knowledge of the disease in the region As part of a large on-goi...

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... some of the problems here, in arriving at the estimate of the tuberculosis burden in the country As has been brought out in an earlier para, the rates of both bacteriological and radiologically ... Indian Jouinal of Tuheiculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIA Based on the above exercise, one has now access to a fresh se...

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... based on the classification of the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of the USA (14) Statistical analysis Comparisons between variables were tested using the chi-square ... fibrosis and inflammation may play important roles TB infection is associated with airway fibrosis and the immune response to mycobacteria could cause airway inflammation, a ch...

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... fuchsin 0.3%, slow heating until steaming, rinsing after min, destaining with 25% sulfuric acid, rinsing, counterstaining with methylene blue 0.3% for min, rinsing and drying.13 The remainder of the ... higher using the bleach method, regardless of study site, the aspect of the sputum and DISCUSSION The bleach method was applied for the first time in Laos for t...

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... Content of the training modules Table details the content of the training Topics included HIV epidemiology, transmission modes and natural course of HIV infection, HIV prevention within the health care ... Program staff in the development phase facilitated the use of the training materials by the National Program in the roll-out of TB /HIV tra...

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... researcher revisited the main points of the findings with the participants and asked whether they were consistent with their experiences Data analysis was conducted in Chinese and the final report ... data collection and analysis and helped to draft the manuscript YPZ participated in the data collection, analysis and made critical revision to the paper All authors read and approved...

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... categories are shown as means with ranges where appropriate Comparative data between characteristics are displayed, and data are summarized as tables as well as in text Results Patient characteristics ... awareness King Fahad National Guard Hospital is an 800-bed tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel health...

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... identified tuberculosis (including previously undiagnosed disease) as a cause of death in 14–54% of deaths of adults or adolescents with HIV infection or AIDS. 24–26 Similarly, a postmortem study in Zambia ... with acid-fast bacilli.32 In many settings with high rates of HIV infection, staff spend less than the recommended time examining smears because of the...

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... be associated with resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis in the Chinese Han population KIR genes apparently have a role in resistance to pulmonary tuberculosis Key words: Pulmonary tuberculosis; ... those of Mendez et al (2006) Smear-positive patients are the main source of infection in a community Only 10% of individuals develop clinical disease The immune respons...

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