... [1], making it a major public health concern in the country. TB in the Philippines ranked fifth in the 10leading causes of death and fifth in the 10 leading causes of illness, with an incidence ... finding in pa-tients with POTB. This would be a logical finding in ourdiagnosed PTB patient population since choroidal tuber-cles and retinal vasculitis indicate hematogenous seeding of bacilli. ... especially in immunocompromised indi-viduals and the elderly.TB in the eye can manifest in a myriad of ways, andthe definitive diagnosis can be daunting due to the dif-ficulty of getting ocular...
... Research: Prevalenceof Drug Resistance in patients with Pulmonary Tuber-culosis presenting for the first time with symptom at chest clinics in India Part; II, Findings in Urban clinics among ... Tutor in Microbiology ‘“Statistician PREVALENCEOF INITIAL DRUG RESISTANCE AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING CLINICS IN MADRAS 167 therefore give good indication of the prevalent practice of chemotherapy ... urban chest clinics in India with or without history of previous chemotherapy. Madras was one of the 9 centres participating in this study. Considering all the centres, 25 % of the patients...
... statistically significant increase of >2 in relative risk [27]. The infection risk of physicians wasexamined in various studies of varying quality. Because of the inadequate data, it is difficult ... to determine which TB cases among HCWs in theNetherlands were infected during work. Of a total of 101TB cases, the infection pathways of 67 cases could beestablished; 42% (28 out of 67) were ... significantdecrease in TB incidence in the hospital staff. According tothe authors this indicated a "strong, flowing source of infection" [25]. This hospital is still the referral center forTB treatment...
... representative data on prevalenceof MDR-TB are lacking. We stress the importance of continuous monitoring of drug resistance trends, in order to assess the efcacy of current interventions and ... rifampicin, isoniazid and streptomycin. The prevalenceof MDR-TB among category-II pulmonary tuberculosis patients was 20.4 per cent.Interpretation & conclusions: The prevalenceof MDR-TB in ... 312Indian J Med Res 133, March 2011, pp 312-315 SHARMA et al: PREVALENCEOF MDR-TB AMONG CATEGORY II PULMONARY TB CASES 315 In conclusion, our ndings showed that the prevalence of MDR-TB in...
... the prevalence of Bartonella spp. from companion animals in Korea has not been previously investigated. We examined the prevalence of B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae in dogs and cats in the ... were co-infected with B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae of blood samples of dogs. This report is the first to investigate the prevalenceof B. henselae and B. clarridgeiae in dogs and cats in Korea, ... an Internal Amplification Control for the detection and differentiation of Bartonella henselae and B. clarridgeiae: an examination of cats in Trinidad. BMC Infect Dis 2005, 5, 63.16. Rolain...
... In comparison with that of Japanese quail, the ZP1 bands in the vitelline mem-brane of chicken (lane 3) and guinea fowl (lane 5) werestained weakly. The weaker staining intensity observed in ... purity of theZP1 proteins was confirmed using silver staining afterseparation of the protein by SDS-PAGE.Labeling and administration of ZP1The purified serum ZP1 was labeled with DIG using aDIG ... ZP domain of ZP1 contains a binding site for ZP3 [19]. Similarly,Okumura et al. also demonstrated that ZP1 in theserum of laying hens specifically interacts with ZP3[20] and that this interaction...
... approved the use of fluoxetine, paroxetine,and sertaline for the treatmentof panic disorder [8]. Theutility and effectiveness of paroxetine for treating panic disorder and relieving panic attacks ... Worthington JJ, Emil-ien G, Tzanis E, Salinas E, Whitaker T, Gao B: A double-blind study of the efficacy of venlafaxine extended-release, paroxetine,and placebo in the treatmentof panic disorder. ... effective in the treatment of anxiety arising in a variety of clinical settings:depression with comorbid anxiety [24,25], treatment resistant anxiety in the elderly [26], generalized anxietydisorder...
... regardless of experience of traumatic eventsrelated to armed conflict demonstrated in this study indi-Table 1: Experiences of traumatic of armed conflict-related events among women in Kabul Province, ... subjects representing acommunity of Afghanistan that has experienced decades of conflicts with regard to a wide range of determinants of mental well-being. The achieved response rate of 83.7%was ... deprivation of food is one of the common trau-matic experiences during periods of conflict related tohigh prevalenceof PTSD [13,14]. The independent associ-ation between hardship due to lack of food...
... 18% of presenting complaints in primary healthclinics (WHO 2004). Most reflect acute respiratory infec-tions, responsible for 25% of infectious disease deaths in developing settings (Scherpbier ... orwheezing. Of those reporting one or more episodes of ‘chest problems’ (inclusive of cough, sputum production,wheezing and shortness of breath) in the last year(n = 414), duration of the worst ... residing in a refugee camp within the last 2 years, a greater number of people sleeping in one room, and a wood cooking fire in the sleeping room. Contacts with those previously orcurrently residing...
... surveillance of TB and quaran-tine of the inmates with TB and linking them to thenearby public health institutions. Health education forinmates so as to reduce delay in seeking TB diagnosisand treatment ... that among patients beingretreated for TB because of initial treatment failure, de-fault from initial treatment, or relapse following initial treatment, drug resistance was common and retreatmentoutcomes ... systems. In the currentstudy, a total of 19(7.6%) were found to be reactive forthe HIV antibody test amongst of which 9 (47.4%) hadTB co-infection. The prevalenceof HIV infection in theTB infected...