Extra pulmonary TB
Usefulness of interferon-γ release assay for the diagnosis of sputum smear-negative pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB in Zhejiang Province, China
... of TB-IGRA tests was 89.4%, which was higher than the widely used TB-Ab test that showed a detection ratio of ...Overall, TB-IGRA showed a higher detection ratio of TB than other serological ...
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Clinico-epidemiological profile and diagnostic procedures of pediatric tuberculosis in a tertiary care hospital of western Nepal-a case-series analysis
... Childhood TB is often neglected in high-burden coun- ...from TB less often and less severely than the adults ...of TB patients are children and TB related morbidity and mortality is high among ...
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Factors Associated with Unsuccessful Treatment Outcome of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Kota Bharu, Kelantan
... among pulmonary TB ...treated pulmonary TB cases in Kota Bharu district Kelantan between January 2006 and December ...of extra-pulmonary TB, smoking, co-morbid disease ...
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Diagnostic performance and problem analysis of commercial tuberculosis antibody detection kits in China
... new TB cases and 1.4 million TB deaths worldwide ...the pulmonary TB in people aged 15 and older was 459 per 100,000 ...smear-positive pulmonary TB was 66 per 100,000 population, ...
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A study of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and its outcome
... evaluated extra-pulmonary cases and recorded sites of involvement in order of ...of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis disease with HIV ...Results: Extra-pulmonary cases accounted for ...
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Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Retrospective Review of 83 Confirmed Cases, Observed in Radiology in Lomé (TOGO)
... of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis af- ter pleural location, ganglionic, genito-urinary, osteoaricular, military and meningeal [8], it represents the fourth location in our ...of extra-pulmonary ...
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Tuberculous Meningitis in Two-Year-Old Male Boy: Evidence of Recent Transmission from Mother to Baby
... active TB amongst adults, as pediatric cases always acquire it passively from household contact of adults suffering from TB as disease in adults is ...childhood extra-pulmonary and ...
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High prevalence of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in people living with HIV in Western India
... confirmed Pulmonary TB (PTB) and/or extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) diagnosed based on detection of Mycobacterium TB by line probe assay (Geno Type MTBDRplus version 2) on clinical ...
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Childhood tuberculosis and treatment outcomes in Accra: a retrospective analysis
... had TB. Extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) was also diagnosed after various relevant investigations had been conducted on samples obtained from children with suggestive clinical ...for TB ...
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Profile of Tuberculosis in AL-Diwanyah Governorate, Iraq
... female TB patients was 263 ...male TB patients which was 225 ...of TB, the results of the current study showed that 374 ...had pulmonary TB and 114 (23.36%) patients had ...
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Efficacy of Dots in Childhood Tuberculosis using Paediatric Patient-Wise Boxes
... also histopathological examination). Appropriate clinical samples include sputum, gastric aspirates and certain other material (e.g. lymph node biopsy or any other material that is biopsied). Fine-needle aspiration of ...
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Increased vitamin D receptor expression from macrophages after stimulation with M tuberculosis among persons who have recovered from extrapulmonary tuberculosis
... of TB, particularly extrapulmonary TB [14, ...spinal TB, the ff genotype of the VDR Fok1 polymorphism correlated with lower VDR mRNA and protein levels in the inter- vertebral disk tissues, and the ...
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Smear positive extra pulmonary tuberculosis disease at University of Gondar Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
... The prevalence of extra pulmonary tuberculosis infec- tion among patients with age group 31 – 40 years was relatively higher with both direct AFB microscopic (14.9%) and cytological 46 (67%) techniques in ...
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Results of Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy in Pulmonary TB
... of surgery were recurrent hemoptysis (24 cases) massive hemoptysis (4 cases), MDR-TB (4 cases), bronchiectasis and recurrent infection (2 cases) and main right bronchial stenosis (1 case). In some of the patients, ...
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Adipose Tissue Regulates Pulmonary Pathology during TB Infection
... by ZN staining (Fig. 2a). To determine how fat ablation affects pulmonary bacterial loads, we performed blinded quantitative analyses of bacterial loads in the ZN images. Sections of the lungs of M. ...
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Pattern of Drug Resistance in Pulmonary TB Patients
... Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death due to infectious diseases globally after AIDS (1). Approximately, 2 billion people in the world are infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis, and 8.8 million ...
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FINANCIAL BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (TB) IN PAKISTAN
... of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment and explore the effects of treatment expenditures on socioeconomic ...positive pulmonary tuberculosis ...anti pulmonary TB treatment was PKR ...of ...
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Paediatric tuberculosis in Singapore: a retrospective review
... of TB declined from 57 per 100 000 residents in the 1990s to a low of 35 per 100 000 residents in ...of TB was ...total TB population. The majority (84%) of cases had pulmonary TB (PTB) ...
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Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau
... the TB suspects referred, 52 and 48 from the respec- tive cohorts appeared for investigation at the local health ...unknown TB was diagnosed in two females from the adult cohort aged 24 and 50 ...other ...
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Evaluation of facility and community based active household tuberculosis contact investigation in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
... of TB diagnosis in the Ethiopian context, particu- larly in early stages of manifestation [35], could have resulted in undiagnosed cases in both ...versely, TB may be clinically over-diagnosed including the ...
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