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Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Close Contacts Smear Positive TB Patients
... Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is considered as one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in developing countries. At present, extensive contact investigation among households is not a routine part of TB control ...
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis in the Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia
... The space-time statistic also identified clustering in the same locations detected by the pure- ly spatial scan statistics and Gi statistics. Our finding was in agreement with other studies that report the existence of ...
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Delay in sputum smear conversion and outcomes of smear positive tuberculosis patients: a retrospective cohort study in Bafoussam, Cameroon
... of smear-positive patients with sputum smear non-conversion at the end of the intensive phase is an indicator of TB program performance ...sputum smear conversion at the end of the initial ...
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Long term outcome of smear positive tuberculosis patients after initiation and completion of treatment: A ten year retrospective cohort study
... Of 2,730 eligible registered smear-positive TB cases, 2,272 (83.2%) were interviewed, while 458 (16%) were not interviewed due to migration to other areas. There was no baseline difference by age at the ...
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Treatment outcome of new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Penang, Malaysia
... diagnosed smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients is used as a major pointer to gauge the effectiveness of national tuberculosis program ...
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Trend of Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Sistan and Baluchestan Province (2005-2008)
... 49/100,000 cases per year. Based on the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, case detection index for smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (SPP-TB) has reported to be 11/ 100,000 in Iran in the year 2006. ...
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Smear microscopy and culture conversion rates among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients by HIV status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients attending Mwananyamala, Amana and Temeke District Hospitals, and Tandale, Magomeni and Mnazi Mmoja health centres, were counseled about the ...for ...
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Results: Smear positive cases CBNAAT positivity was 95.91% and smear negative cases 10.48%.
... ZN smear positive patients are considered highly infectious and being focused by most of ...clinicians. Smear negative patients are also reported to responsible for approximately 17% of transmission ...
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“Discovery to Treatment” Window in Patients with Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... "Discovery to Treatment" Window in Patients With Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis ORIGINAL ARTICLE "Discovery to Treatment" Window in Patients With Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis L C Loh,[.] ...
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Tuberculosis treatment outcome and predictors in northern Ethiopian prisons: a five-year retrospective analysis
... direct smear microscopy and/or chest X-ray, and pathological investigation following the national guidelines ...sputum smear examina- tions positive for AFB (acid-fast bacilli) by direct smear ...
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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, ...of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis decreased from ...of ...
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Risk factors for tuberculosis smear non conversion in Eden district, Western Cape, South Africa, 2007–2013: a retrospective cohort study
... sputum smear conversion at the end of an intensive phase of treatment, 2 months for new cases and 3 months for re-treatment cases [9]: smear conversion is a strong predictor of treatment outcomes [10, ...of ...
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The effect of green tea extract supplementation on sputum smear conversion and weight changes in pulmonary TB patients: A randomized controlled trial
... sputum smear positive TB patients revealed that the proportion of the sputum smear clearance one month after the start of treatment was higher but non-significant in patients receiving food package ...
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Serodiagnostic Potential of Culture Filtrate Antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... (HIV)-negative, smear-positive; HIV-negative, smear-negative; and HIV-infected TB patients, with three of the candidate antigens, an 88-kDa protein, antigen (Ag) 85C, and MPT32, and compared the ...
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Liquid vs Solid Culture Medium to Evaluate Proportion and Time to Change in Management of Suspects of Tuberculosis-A Pragmatic Randomized Trial in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Units in Brazil.
... We observed a low proportion of drug-resistant TB in patients cared for at both health units, and these results match previous drug resistant survey results [31]. It is expected that early access to drug susceptibility ...
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Evaluation of Antigen Specific Immunoglobulin G Responses in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients and Contacts
... sputum smear-negative patients or those incapable of producing ...sputum smear results; however, both smear-positive and -nega- tive patients showed significantly higher levels of IgG than ...
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Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review
... pulmonary, smear-negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary), geo- graphic level, spatial methods (map types, cluster detec- tion methods, statistical regression methods, spatial lag, spatial error, spatial smoothing ...
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Specificity of antibodies to immunodominant mycobacterial antigens in pulmonary tuberculosis
... RESULTS Definition of cutoff points between patient and control The titers of IgG antibodies in human sera were determined in groups of patients with active smear-positive or smear-negat[r] ...
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... for smear preparation (centrifuged deposit, cytospin, direct smear, ...stained smear positivities which are found in CSF samples and the fact that a negative gram staining does not rule out ...
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New synthetic lipid antigens for rapid serological diagnosis of tuberculosis
... Mycobacterium. The first diagnostic method, using as antigens complex mixtures of TDM (2), isolated from Mtb, by ELISA has been reported by Yano [30–41]. The highest average response was for smear-positive ...
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