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Whole Blood Interferon γ Release Assay Is Insufficient for the Diagnosis of Sputum Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... among sputum smear negative PTB suspects in an environment with intermediate burden of PTB and high Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination ...224 sputum smear negative PTB ...
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Diagnosing Sputum/smear-negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in PLHIV Based on Culture a Study from MGM District Hospital
... have sputum smear-negative, culture-positive pulmonary TB ...The sputum smear has traditionally been used as the method for making an early diagnosis of ...PTB. Sputum ...
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Diagnostic role of Gastric Aspiration in sputum smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis Government Hospital of Thoracic Medicine, Tambaram Sanatorium, Chennai.
... IN SPUTUM SMEAR NEGATIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL OF THORACIC MEDICINE, TAMBARAM SANATORIUM” submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in ...
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Sputum smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis: sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic algorithm
... on smear from any of the three sputum ...have sputum smear positive were treated for tuberculosis according to the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy program treatment ...have sputum ...
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Usefulness of interferon-γ release assay for the diagnosis of sputum smear-negative pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB in Zhejiang Province, China
... million sputum smear-negative and/or culture-negative infections ...low smear- positive rate and long incubation period required to obtain positive cultures are problematic for the re- ...
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Evaluation of Antigen Specific Immunoglobulin G Responses in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients and Contacts
... for sputum smear-negative patients or those incapable of producing ...on sputum smear results; however, both smear-positive and -nega- tive patients showed significantly higher ...
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... having sputum smear positive ...the sputum smear negative (50%) ...Nepal, sputum smear negative participants had significantly lower risk of patient ...
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Predictors and outcomes of mycobacteremia among HIV infected smear negative presumptive tuberculosis patients in Uganda
... actual cause of death in the study population. Secondly, we may not have found statistically significant differ- ences in some of the comparisons made between the mycobacteremia and non-mycobacteremia patients due to the ...
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Serodiagnostic Potential of Culture Filtrate Antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... the smear-positive, HIV-negative and HIV-positive TB patients was the lack of cavitary lesions in a vast majority of the latter ...from smear-negative HIV-positive TB pa- tients showed better ...
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Value of Repeated Direct Smear Sputum Examination in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... third smear in combination with second smear (NPP). A third sputum spe- cimen is useful as confirmatory evidence if only one of the first two smears has a positive ...three sputum specimens ...
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Detection of sputum smear cell based on image processing analysis
... lungs. Sputum can be categorized in a type of bloody that often found in tuberculosis (hemoptysis), rusty colored where it can be found in pneumonia, purulent, foamy white and frothy ...mortality. Sputum ...
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Bronchial Washing to Diagnose Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... two sputum samples from patients suspected with TB to in- crease the sensitivity for M ...defines smear-negative pulmonary TB (SNPT) as a case with at least two sputum samples negative ...
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Tuberculosis outcomes in Papua, Indonesia: the relationship with different body mass index characteristics between Papuan and non-Papuan ethnic groups
... This study was performed as part of a clinical trial of adjunctive L-arginine and vitamin D for PTB (clinicaltrials.gov/ NCT00677339) [28,29]. In this study, neither intervention significantly affected the outcome ...
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Clinical consequences of submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia in Uganda
... with negative blood smears, DNA extracted from DBS was tested for the presence of submicroscopic para- sitaemia using ...blood smear were treated with standard dosing of artemether–lumefan- ...
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Test characteristics and potential impact of the urine LAM lateral flow assay in HIV infected outpatients under investigation for TB and able to self expectorate sputum for diagnostic testing
... spot sputum specimens with a volume of ≥1 ml each, and exclusion criteria included: i) failure to obtain informed consent and ii) initiation of anti-TB treatment in the previous 60 ...
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Modelling the impacts of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis in developing countries to enhance policy decisions
... Efforts by organisations such as the Stop-TB partnership [2] and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) to stimulate innovation in the processes and technology of TB diagnosis have resulted in the ...
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Original Article Air impact-assisted intermittent subglottic secretion drainage improves the prognosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with respiratory failure
... the sputum smear, blood-gas indicators before and after sputum aspiration (including partial pressure of carbon dioxide [PaCO 2 ]) and partial pressure of blood oxy- gen [PaO 2 ]), vital signs per ...
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... Sputum smear positive (SSP) pulmonary tuberculosis patients are the most significant source of infection for ...(RNTCP), smear conversion at the end of the intensive phase (IP) of treatment is ...
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Second month sputum smear as a predictor of tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil
... The SSM non-conversion in the second month as a predictor of unfavourable outcomes has been a matter of debate in the literature [4, 5, 19, 20]. SSM conversion has been associated with cure/treatment completion [10, 13, ...
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Delay in sputum smear conversion and outcomes of smear positive tuberculosis patients: a retrospective cohort study in Bafoussam, Cameroon
... Previous studies have identified older age [9,18] and previous TB treatment history [7,18] as significant risk factors of sputum smear non-conversion at the end of the intensive treatment phase. In this ...
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