Pulmonary Tuberculosis
A study of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and its outcome
... Although pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common presentation of tuberculosis disease, it can involve any organ in the ...Extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is defined as the ...
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Circulating MicroRNAs in Patients with Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... miR-29a was shown to directly target negative regulators of Wnt signaling, and Wnt was known to trigger macrophage inflammatory responses (12, 22). A recent study showed that miR-29a was specifically upregulated after ...
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Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by PCR Assay
... collaborated and joint study, restricted and unrestricted protocol conditions were considered. The outcoming results of these efforts confirmed that wide deviations in the worked out sensitivity and specificity were due ...
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Risk of Becoming Ill with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Mexico
... Mexico; tuberculosis is one of the deadliest reemerging ...to pulmonary tuberculosis in ...that pulmonary Tuberculosis most often affects people with low socioeconomic status, ...
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Isoniazid Biotransformation in a Population of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is an infectious disease produced mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a severe problem of Public ...of pulmonary tuberculosis were registered, 97% ...
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Utility of PCR in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis
... with pulmonary tuberculosis who are subsequently culture positive are initially smear negative (nearly one-third in the present ...study). Pulmonary tuberculosis in two-thirds of these ...
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FINANCIAL BURDEN OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS (TB) IN PAKISTAN
... of pulmonary tuberculosis on patients in terms of direct and indirect costs, it is important to understand and scrutinize the factors precipitating the ailment and aggravating the ...
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Bayesian mapping of pulmonary tuberculosis in Antananarivo, Madagascar
... 16 Tuberculosis DTC of the city provided the data for TB new ...of pulmonary tuberculosis were defined as patients presenting a cough lasting for more than three weeks and confirmed by a positive ...
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Case Finding for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Penang
... Case Finding for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Penang ORIGINAL ARTICLE Case Finding for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Penang L N Hooi, MRCP Chest Clinic, Penang Hospital, Jalan Residensi, 70450 Penang ~p~mt;l[.] ...
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The respiratory microbiota: new insights into pulmonary tuberculosis
... A systematic literature search was conducted to identify relevant studies that assessed the composition and diver- sity of respiratory microbiota among TB and healthy controls. The PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase and Google ...
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Risk Factors Associated with Survival of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... who were still alive (until last follow-up date) considered as censored. Chi-square test was ap- plied for testing distribution of characteristics among patients. To study the risk factors for pulmonary ...
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Delays in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... of tuberculosis cases were the result of transmission from smear-negative tuberculosis cases ...of tuberculosis patients have been com- monly reported in both developing and developed coun- tries ...
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Spread of Drug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Estonia
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical iso- lates obtained from newly detected pulmonary tuberculosis patients (151 male and 58 female; mean age, 41 years) in Estonia during 1994 showed that 61 isolates ...
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A Study on Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Reactive Persons
... This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “A STUDY ON PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN HIV REACTIVE PERSONS” is a original work done by Dr.K.THIYAGARAJAN in Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College ...
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Study on Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Diabetes Mellitus
... pulmonary tuberculosis. 56 age matched patients suffering from tuberculosis alone and non diabetics selected randomly were compared with DIABETIC TB GROUP [ DM-TB] for age wise break up , and sex ...
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Knowledge and attitude of caregivers regarding pulmonary tuberculosis
... 2006). Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a may spread to other organs like intestine, meninges, bones, joints, lymph glands, skin and other tissues of the ...found tuberculosis spreads from person to ...
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Viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum after pulmonary tuberculosis cure
... Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) with detectable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum is a major source of ...new pulmonary TB cases declared cured by sputum smear conversion and to ...
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A Test for More Accurate Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... tuberculosis in adults, 7,8 data are still lacking regarding its diagnostic accuracy in children. A multicenter comparative study in children demonstrated the higher sensitivity of Ultra over Xpert using sputum ...
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GOAT MILK: BOON FOR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS .......
... Pulmonary Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in developing coun- tries. It causes due to infection with My- cobacterium tuberculosis. It causes 2 mil- lion deaths per year in all over ...
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Bronchial Anthracosis and Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... In conclusion, bronchial anthracosis is mainly observed in old women complaining of cough, phlegm and dyspnea who mainly undergo bronchoscopy due to an old age and changes observed on their radiography and chest CT-scan ...
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