TB Patients
When Does Drug Resistant TB Strike HIV/TB Patients?—A South India Experience
... of TB patients are found to HIV positive while it varies across the ...of TB-HIV patients in these states varies from 10% - 30% of total TB patients ...resistant TB is ...
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Framework of behavioral indicators for outcome evaluation of TB health promotion: a Delphi study of TB suspects and Tb patients
... 3 TB health workers who reviewed appropri- ateness and clarity of the questionnaire ...for TB suspects included 1 domain, 2 subdomains, and 3 ...for TB patients included 2 domains, 8 ...
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Pre Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (Pre XDR TB) among Pulmonary Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) Patients in Bangladesh
... MDR-TB patients in ...MDR-TB patients. Identification of pre-XDR-TB cases is an important step in the prevention of treatment failure of patients suffering from MDR-TB in ...
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Delay in the Provision of Antiretroviral Therapy to HIV infected TB Patients in Nigeria
... HIV-positive TB patients irrespective of CD4 cell count, and is likely a major barrier to timely ART ...as TB treatment completion or ...that patients with lower CD4 cell counts should start ...
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HIV Prevalence Among TB Patients in Moscow
... diagnosed TB and HIV co-infection cases impact greatly the figures and characteristics that describe TB ...of TB and HIV co-infection vs. TB alone (no ...with TB constitute those that ...
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The Prediction Factors of Pre XDR and XDR TB among MDR TB Patients in Northern Thailand
... XDR-TB patients in the upper north of Thailand, who had been identified for drug susceptibili- ty using the indirect agar proportion method from 2005-2012, were examined for genetic site mutations of katG , ...
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Pattern of Drug Resistance in Pulmonary TB Patients
... (56%) patients were resistant to INH, RIF, STM, and ...referring patients to our center. In fact, those patients with clinical suspicion of MDR-tuberculosis had been referred to this ...
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QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF PATIENT COUNSELING ON QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS
... the TB and control groups, in the present study could be explained by social roles and restrictions regarding sex, and could also be related to the physiological structure and hormonal differences of the ...of ...
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Adenosine Deaminase Activity in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Patients with Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is an enzyme involved in purine catabolism, catalyzing the pathway from adenosine to inosine and is known as a cellular immunity marker. Physiologic activity of this enzyme is due to its release ...
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis in an Indian population by an indirect ELISA protocol based on detection of Antigen 85 complex: a prospective cohort study
... active TB patients (81 male, 47 female; age 13–63 years) from inpatient and outpatient services at the Tuberculosis Center, Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur and Central India Institute of Medical ...
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Defining Catastrophic Costs and Comparing Their Importance for Adverse Tuberculosis Outcome with Multi-Drug Resistance: A Prospective Cohort Study, Peru
... of TB patients in impoverished Peruvian shantytowns, accessing free TB care was expensive for poor TB patients, especially those with MDR ...for TB-affected ...adverse TB ...
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H. Pylori Prevalence and Its Effect on CD4+ Lymphocyte Count in Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Hospitals in Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia
... Abstract: Background: Helicobacter pylori, a lifelong and typically asymptomatic infection of the stomach, strongly alter gastric immune responses. The present study aimed to survey the prevalence and related risks of H. ...
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Implementing a “free” tuberculosis (TB) care policy under the integrated model in Jiangsu, China: practices and costs in the real world
... of TB care has many ...on TB patients’ families and health insurance funds, and 2) compromising the quality of care that may lead to more drug-resistant ...drug-resistant TB development in ...
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Childhood TB epidemiology and treatment outcomes in Thailand: a TB active surveillance network, 2004 to 2006
... with TB died during TB treatment, all of them aged ...whom TB occurs almost exclusively at low CD4 levels ...national TB and HIV treatment guide- lines, coverage of some key aspects of ...
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Epidemiology of anti tuberculosis drug resistance patterns and trends in tuberculosis referral hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... treated TB patients referred to St. Peter’s TB Specialized ...treated TB cases from January 2004 – December 2008 ...those patients refereed to the hospital across the country as the ...
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Association between tuberculosis, diabetes and 25 hydroxyvitamin D in Tanzania: a longitudinal case control study
... 280 TB patients and 358 controls had blood sampled for 25(OH)D and glucose ...167 TB cases with follow-up information and 358 controls, all of whom had complete information on glycemic status, ...
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Quality of life among tuberculosis (TB), TB retreatment and/or TB-HIV co-infected primary public health care patients in three districts in South Africa
... In multivariable analysis higher educational, lower psy- chological distress, having fewer chronic conditions and being HIV negative were significantly positively asso- ciated with physical health QoL, and low poverty, ...
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AtriplaR/anti TB combination in TB/HIV patients Drug in focus
... of TB patients have also HIV, and possibly more than half of worldwide patients infected with HIV will also develop TB ...more TB contributed to 27% of all AIDS diagnoses [4]. For ...
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Treatment Outcomes of Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR- TB) Compared with Non-MDR-TB Infections in Peninsular Malaysia
... MDR- TB. Patients were divided into two groups based on previous TB treatment to separate patients who had history of previous anti-TB drugs from those who did ...Nine patients ...
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The burden and characteristics of tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus (TB/HIV) in South Korea: a study from a population database and a survey
... to TB epidemics, especially in sub-Saharan Africa ...latent TB infection could also prevent TB development in TB/HIV cases ...among TB cases are also emphasized ...controlling TB ...
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