Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB)
Individualised second line anti tuberculous therapy for an extensively resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (XDR PTB) in East Malaysia
... history: pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) had been diagnosed in 2004, treated with 2EHRZ/4RH regimen for 6 ...smear-positive PTB occurred in 2007, for which she was prescribed 2EHRZ/4RH again for ...
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Study of clinical and radiological profile of pulmonary tuberculosis among patients having diabetes mellitus
... of pulmonary medicine, in a tertiary health care centre in Eastern ...positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients with diabetes mellitus and the patients who were smear positive for ...
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Using simultaneous amplification and testing method for evaluating the treatment outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis
... resistant tuberculosis; DST: Drug susceptibility testing; E: Ethambutol; FM: Fluorescence microscopy; FQs: Fluoroquinolones; H: Isoniazid; IGRAs: IFN- γ -release assays; MDR: Multidrug-resistant; MTBC: ...
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Assessment the Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Yirga Cheffe Health Center from 2008-2013, Ethiopia
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is one of the world’s most devastating human pathogens that cause more than 2 million deaths ...of pulmonary tuberculosis ...
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Pulmonary tuberculosis preventive practices among Anibessa Bus users at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
... of PTB at Addis Ababa. The odds of practicing prevention of PTB among participants who were attended secondary school (AOR = ...about PTB (AOR = ...of pulmonary tuberculosis prevention ...
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The value of initial cavitation to predict re-treatment with pulmonary tuberculosis
... with pulmonary cavitation; patients with TB with pulmonary cavities was the principal source of disease transmission compared with those with non-cavitary dis- ease [11–14], and the presence of CXR ...
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Serum Ceruloplasmin Albumin Ratio as A Marker of Treatment Response in Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... in pulmonary tuberculosis and to see diagnostic efficiency of ceruloplasmin and albumin ratio between pulmonary tuberculosis and multi drug resistant ...of pulmonary tuberculosis ...
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Research Article Diagnostic Yield of Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CBNAAT) in Pulmonary Tuberculosis with People Living with HIV (PLHIV) Compared to Sputum Microscopy
... in PTB- PLHIV patients, the smear-positive disease was more mostly diagnosed using Xpert MTB/RIF than those with smear-negative ...mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli in sputum by Xpert /RIF and fluroscent ...
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS Patients Attending Art Clinic in Bududa General Hospital, Bududa District, Uganda
... Background: Tuberculosis disease affects survival among HIV co-infected patients on antiretroviral ...of pulmonary tuberculosis in western Uganda is ...revealed Tuberculosis prevalence among ...
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Adherence to Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) among Children in Close Contact with Adult Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) Patients
... diagnosed PTB cases were recruited for the ...of Pulmonary Tuberculosis were identified at the DOTs clinics and were interviewed about their close ...
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Use of low-dose computed tomography to assess pulmonary tuberculosis among healthcare workers in a tuberculosis hospital
... active PTB was found in 19 cases, and inactive PTB was found in 109 ...active PTB in the participants was ...active PTB among the tuberculosis hospital participants were ...active ...
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Comparative chest computed tomography findings of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases and pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with acid fast bacilli smear-positive sputum
... of pulmonary disease, and such infection may indicate colonization or transient infec- ...have pulmonary TB in Taiwan ...without pulmonary TB, ...
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Radiologic Pattern of Sputum-positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) among Immunocompetent Patients in Gwagwalada, Nigeria
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important airborne infection and result in primary tuberculosis usually in children and reactivation of the quiet primary ...varying pulmonary finding in ...
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Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms in adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in the Southwest Region of Cameroon
... in PTB patients in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, especially among females, those with a family history of a mental disorder, those on retreatment for TB, those who discontinued treatment and those who have a ...
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L-arginine and vitamin D adjunctive therapies in pulmonary tuberculosis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
... status modified the response, such that culture conversion was significantly faster in those with TaqI tt genotype randomised to vitD. More recent analyses from this study, restricted to 95 patients in per-protocol ...
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Diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis based on clinical signs in the Republic of Congo
... As in many developing countries, the diagnosis of PTB in the RoC relies on clinical symptoms examination, radi- ography and sputum smear microscopy. In a country with such a resource-limited health system, faster ...
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The potential of a multiplex high throughput molecular assay for early detection of first and second line tuberculosis drug resistance mutations to improve infection control and reduce costs: a decision analytical modeling study
... f: Time counts from TB diagnosis and Rifampicin result comes at the same time as the TB diagnostic result Abbreviations; PE point estimate, PTB pulmonary tuberculosis, MDR multi-drug res[r] ...
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Original Article Genetic polymorphisms of CCL1 rs2072069 G/A and TLR2 rs3804099 T/C in pulmonary or meningeal tuberculosis patients
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis and TLR ligands in ...M. tuberculosis infection by regulating the macrophage activation and cytokine ...M. tuberculosis causes different clinical forms of ...
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<p>Plasma Adipsin as a Biomarker and Its Implication in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus</p>
... Abbreviations: T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; ELISA, enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay; DM, diabetes mellitus; PTB – DM, pulmonary tuberculosis with diabetes mellitus; LTB – DM, latent[r] ...
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To Study Clinical Pattern of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Positive Patients
... Though pulmonary TB (PTB) is the most common form, extra pulmonary tuberculosis is reported to occur more frequently at inaccessible ...extra pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV ...
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