Extra pulmonary TB (EPTB)
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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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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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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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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Risk factors, clinico-epidemiological profile of tuberculosis among children attending a tertiary care hospital: a two year study
... of pulmonary and extra pulmonary cases of ...isolate TB bacilli from body fluids to identify early the childhood cases and manage them to prevent disease burden in the ...of pulmonary ...
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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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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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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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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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Detection of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients with the 38-kilodalton antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a rapid membrane-based assay.
... 3), pulmonary abscess (n 5 3), silicosis (n 5 2), influenza (n 5 1), and hydrothorax (n 5 1), were screened by radiographic techniques and diagnosed according to the standard clinical practice for each ...
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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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Pattern of Drug Resistance in Pulmonary TB Patients
... In our study, the number of cases having MDR- bacilli criteria was 38 (88%). Twenty-six (56%) patients were resistant to INH, RIF, STM, and EMB. This rate is more than that of other world medical centers which is ...
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Tuberculosis burden in an urban population: a cross sectional tuberculosis survey from Guinea Bissau
... on TB detection by active case find- ing using house to house ...for TB symptoms using standardized questionnaires ...following TB symptoms: cough, expectorate, haemoptysis (coughing blood), ...
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Paediatric tuberculosis in Singapore: a retrospective review
... Table 1 describes the differences between PTB and EPTB. Patients with EPTB were younger (median age 5.1 years (IQR 1.2–10.2) vs 10.1 years (IQR 3.5–13.5), p=0.03), were more likely to be immunodeficient (35% vs 6%, ...
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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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Spatial-temporal Analysis of Tuberculosis Incidence in Burundi Using GIS
... of TB incidence during the period 2009-2017 and guide the resource ...of TB and demographic data were collected at province ...of TB recorded at health district level were ...of TB incidence ...
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Managing comorbidities in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) include older age and a history of smoking, which predispose to several pulmonary and extra-pulmonary ...common pulmonary and ...
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Clinical Profile of Pulmonary and Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Study of 210 cases
... Tuberculosis of the upper respiratory tract occurs in about 1.8% of TB patients. Larynx is the most common site involved which is highly infectious. Tuberculosis of the nasal mucus membrane is extremely rare and ...
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