Culture conversion
Predictors of delayed culture conversion among Ugandan patients
... of culture conversion between arms or be- tween culture methods and may have hindered signifi- cance of some predictor variables of ...smear-negative culture positive TB ...treatment ...
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Factors affecting time to sputum culture conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in China
... sputum culture conversion is a useful prognostic tool to predict end-of-treatment outcomes in MDR-TB patients but that results differ substantially depending on the month of treatment in which ...
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Comparison of the validity of smear and culture conversion as a prognostic marker of treatment outcome in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
... of culture conversion by the end of the intensive phase, or bacteriological reversion in the continuation phase after conversion to negative after the intensive phase, or evidence of additional ...
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Limited role of culture conversion for decision making in individual patient care and for advancing novel regimens to confirmatory clinical trials
... to culture conversion [12] or the slope of quantitative cultures on solid or liquid media over time [13, 14] are more commonly used as they permit smaller trials and are thought to be more reliable for ...
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The Influence of Pyrazinamide Monoresistance on Treatment Outcomes in Tuberculosis Patients from Southern China
... smear conversion rate of ...sputum conversion after 2 months treatment ...the culture conversion rate in patients when multiple first-line drugs were used in combination for the first 2-months ...
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Sputum Cytokine Levels in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis as Early Markers of Mycobacterial Clearance
... Sputum culture conversion following 8 weeks of treatment has been used as a surrogate of response to antituberculous chemotherapy ...with culture sterilization may provide important information about ...
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The clinical impact of drug-induced hepatotoxicity on anti-tuberculosis therapy: a case control study
... AFB culture conversion within 2 months, the only significant factor was smear- positivity of the initial sputum specimen, which serves as the index of the initial disease burden (Table 4), Table 1 ...
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<p>The Use of Amikacin Liposome Inhalation Suspension (Arikayce) in the Treatment of Refractory Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease in Adults</p>
... achieve culture conversion by month 6 of ...endpoint, culture conversion, de fi ned as three consecutive months of negative cultures, was required by month four of treat- ...remained ...
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Low Serum Concentrations of Moxifloxacin, Prothionamide, and Cycloserine on Sputum Conversion in Multi Drug Resistant TB
... although culture conversion after 2 months of treatment is an indicator of treatment effective- ness in drug-sensitive TB, 22 there are no accumulated data ...
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The potential for treatment shortening with higher rifampicin doses : relating drug exposure to treatment response in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
... sputum culture conversion (SCC) at week 8 over varying rifampicin exposures for a virtual population of patients (distribution of baseline bacterial load and missing sputum samples mimicking that of the ...
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Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients with macrolide-resistant Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... sputum culture con- version rate with macrolide-free regimens was 38% in a previous systematic review ...sputum culture conversion rate was 21% (95% CI, 14–30%), which represents a worse treatment ...
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Substitution of ethambutol with linezolid during the intensive phase of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: study protocol for a prospective, multicenter, randomized, open label, phase II trial
... sputum culture conversion rate on liquid media after 2 months of ...sputum culture conversion rate on solid media after 2 months of treatment, time to sputum culture conversion ...
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THE RHETORIC OF REFUGEES: LITERACY, NARRATIVE AND IDENTITY FOR SOMALI WOMEN
... studies that examined risk factors for MDR TB also reported that lower socioeconomic status is associated with resistance [34]–[36]. Consistent with our finding that patients with lower socioeconomic status had three ...
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Pharmacodynamic Modeling of Bacillary Elimination Rates and Detection of Bacterial Lipid Bodies in Sputum to Predict and Understand Outcomes in Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... Sputum culture conversion at 8 weeks is the conventional phase 2 study endpoint, and an association was observed be- tween positive 8-week SSCC plates and unfavorable ...earlier culture ...
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Xpert MTB/RIF Assay Shows Faster Clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA with Higher Levels of Rifapentine Exposure
... and culture conversion, suggesting that despite Xpert’s lower spec- ificity for viable mycobacteria, the overall behavior of the assay is similar to that of sputum culture in longitudinal use ...
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Tuberculosis outcomes in Papua, Indonesia: the relationship with different body mass index characteristics between Papuan and non-Papuan ethnic groups
... 8-week culture or time to microscopy conversion) or other patient variables ...sputum culture conversion and clinical variables in univariable and multivariable analyses (p valus ...
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Role of ethambutol and rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease
... for culture conversion, microbiological cure, and treatment ...initial culture conversion and recurrence after treatment success, ac- cording to maintenance of the ethambutol and rifampi- ...
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Non conversion of sputum culture among patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Cameroon: a prospective cohort study
... sputum culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...for culture non-conversion after intensive treatment, in predicting anti-TB treatment ...sputum culture after intensive treatment, even in the ...
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Tamang Conversions: Culture, Politics, and the Christian Conversion Narrative in Nepal
... Take conversion. Many analysts see conversion to Christianity as a ...is, conversion may be the starting point of a departure that plays out over time, even as the event itself must be placed within ...
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Culture Within Play And Play Within Culture
... in culture) Hofstede (2001cited in Ayman & Korabik, 2010) categorized cultures in five levels: “individualism-collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity-feminity” ...
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