Smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis
Assessment by Meta Analysis of PCR for Diagnosis of Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SPT) and to identify factors that account for differences in the diagnostic accuracy of different ...in smear-negative respiratory or ...
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Diagnosing Sputum/smear-negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in PLHIV Based on Culture a Study from MGM District Hospital
... sputum/smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients can be both challenging and time consuming with many patients being put on empirical anti-tubercular ...sputum smear ...
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Diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis based on clinical signs in the Republic of Congo
... sputum smear microscopy and chest X-ray radiogra- phy. Sputum smear microscopy is commonly used for diagnosing PTB ...are smear- negative pulmonary tuberculosis ...with ...
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Adenosine Deaminase Activity in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Patients with Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... for pulmonary TB with negative sputum smear for AFB or had other indications for bronchoscopy, were included in the ...as pulmonary TB group. Group 2: patients with negative results for ...
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Comparative Study between Fluorescent Microscopy, Mycobacterial Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) and Gene Xpert for the Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis from Clinical Suspects of Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis (≤36 hours, subculture, then the growth was diluted as 1:1 in sterile ...remained negative during the whole test period or flagged positive after the control ...
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Fiberoptic bronchoscopy for the rapid diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis
... sputum smear-negative cases, HRCT is superior to chest x-ray in the diagnosis of PTB and in the determin- ation of its extent and ...anti- tuberculosis treatment to commence more ...sputum ...
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Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Misdiagnosed as Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a TB Clinic in Nigeria
... chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) are practically ...for smear-negative ...sputum smear was acid-fast bacilli negative and GeneXpert ...
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Evaluation of in house PCR for diagnosis of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
... PCR-positive/culture negative as well as PCR- negative/culture negative study participants and the outcomes of both categories ...sputum smear; granulomas on histopathology; and clinical re- ...
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Whole Blood Interferon γ Release Assay Is Insufficient for the Diagnosis of Sputum Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... M. tuberculosis was cultured, 2) a caseating granuloma was found in the lung tissue by transthoracic needle biopsy and showed appropriate response to treatment; or 3) clinical findings were compatible with TB, no ...
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Sputum smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis: sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic algorithm
... using smear microscopy ...terium Tuberculosis (MTB) using cultures [9], the cost and facilities of doing cultures are prohibitive in most develop- ing ...Sputum smear microscopy remains the main ...
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Bronchial Washing to Diagnose Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... of Tuberculosis Research ...for pulmonary TB have been developed, its definitive diagnosis relies on culturing Mycobacterium tu- berculosis from respiratory .... tuberculosis [3]. The World Health ...
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Epidemiologic Status of Tuberculosis in Golestan Province
... of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (1378 people, ...62.7%), smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (454 persons, ...miliary tuberculosis (3 persons, ...of ...
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Clinical Evaluation of Anti Tuberculous Glycolipid Immunoglobulin G Antibody Assay for Rapid Serodiagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... eradicate tuberculosis, it is important to improve diag- nostic techniques so that active tuberculosis can be treated at an early stage before tuberculous bacilli can be detected in the ...active ...
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Prevalence of tuberculosis, multidrug resistant tuberculosis and associated risk factors among smear negative presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... of smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis among smear negative presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis patients was 27/418 ...higher smear negative PTB ...
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... of Pulmonary Medicine, Rohilkhand Medical College and Hospital, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, ...as smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis cases and given DOTS in primary health centre later ...
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Original Article Multicenter evaluation of membrane-based smear microscopy for detecting acid-fast bacilli in China
... and smear positive patients respec- tively based on the results of other specimens, and ...were negative for pulmonary tuberculosis based on X-ray result and direct smear microscopy and ...
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Treatment outcomes and factors affecting unsuccessful outcome among new pulmonary smear positive and negative tuberculosis patients in Anqing, China: a retrospective study
... One additional finding of our study was that PTB patients in treatment management model of full-course supervision and supervision in intensive phase had higher probability of treatment success. This is consist- ent with ...
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The epidemiology of tuberculosis in Phuentsholing General Hospital: a six year retrospective study
... positive smear and radiologic abnormalities consistent with pulmonary tu- berculosis, or one positive smear and sputum culture positive were considered to have ...three negative smears were ...
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New synthetic lipid antigens for rapid serological diagnosis of tuberculosis
... for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), poor case-detection rates remain an obstacle to its control in many low and middle-income ...accessible, smear microscopy (still the most commonly used PTB diagnos- ...
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Diagnosis of Tuberculosis by Trained African Giant Pouched Rats and Confounding Impact of Pathogens and Microflora of the Respiratory Tract
... M. tuberculosis in sputa and not other microorgan- isms of the respiratory ...M. tuberculosis was the most fre- quently detected species among the microorganisms isolated from sputa of suspected cases ...
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