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Development and validation of a risk score to predict mortality during TB treatment in patients with TB diabetes comorbidity
... exclusively TB-DM patients with a large sample size; (3) using demographic and clinical char- acteristics which are routinely collected by most TB pro- grams from the initial patient visits, our model can ...
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Assessing the impact of TB/HIV services integration on TB treatment outcomes and their relevance in TB/HIV monitoring in Ghana
... [14,15]. TB/HIV integration is primarily about changing the processes of care and multidisciplinary collaboration [16], and it is anticipated to increase pa- tient-centeredness, enhance coordination and improve ...
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Current treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: an aggregated and individual patients’ data analysis for outcome and effectiveness of the current regimens
... MDR- TB treatment program in ...successful treatment was ...poor treatment outcome. The treatment success observed in this analysis is comparable with the results of recently published ...
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Comparison of rapid tests for detection of rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
... mutations outside the "hotspot" region in the rpoB gene which are not covered by the LiPA test. Two discrepancies in which the LiPA was resistant and the indirect test was susceptible are unexplainable, but could ...
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Patients’ Perspectives of the Quality of Tuberculosis Treatment Services in South Ethiopia
... on TB treatment attendees performed in Afar, Ethiopia, showed a relatively lower proportion of patients satisfied with TB ...the TB treatment attendance facilities was small compared to ...
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Prediction of Post-Tuberculosis Lung Function Impairment
... pulmonary TB were ...before TB treatment, persistent of respiratory symptoms after TB treatment, persistent of cavity lesions and extension of lung ...
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Modelling the effect of short-course multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
... 10-month treatment regi- men for MDR-TB is among the most effective means for reducing the impact of this dangerous threat to global TB control in Karakalpakstan, a region with high rates of drug ...
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Association of Reduced Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha, Gamma Interferon, and Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) but Increased IL-10 Expression with Improved Chest Radiography in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
... While advances in cellular immunology have led to rapid, convenient, antigen-specific T-cell response-based diagnostic tests that evaluate M. tuberculosis-specific IFN- ␥ expression, no reliable, early immune-based ...
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Deaths among tuberculosis cases in Shanghai, China: who is at risk?
... the TB cases that were associ- ated with an increased risk of all cause mortality during anti-TB ...previous TB history, cavity on ini- tial chest radiograph, comorbidity), and sputum smear ...
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Model of the Effects of Improving TB Diagnosis on Infection Dynamics in Differing Demographic and HIV Prevalence Scenarios
... active TB begin a TB treatment course, and therefore cease to be infectious to ...begin treatment, and the demographic conditions in which the epidemic ...of TB transmission dynamics to ...
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Effectiveness of the community-based DOTS strategy on tuberculosis treatment success rates in Namibia
... annual TB rates of treatment success, cure ...is TB with lung parenchyma involvement, with bacteriologically confirmed TB at the start of treatment whose sputum was smear- or ...
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Tuberculosis Among Homeless Individuals
... reduces treatment time may increase LTBI treatment success and ensure better completion rates among homeless individuals (Bamrah et ...shortens treatment from 270 daily doses over nine months, to 12 ...
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Evaluation of gene xpert for routine diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis in Nigeria: A prospective cohort study
... HIV-associated TB compared to micros- copy, due to its increased sensitivity [6, ...of TB diagnosis in these ...starting TB treatment, compared to microscopy, when routinely collected ...
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Recurrent tuberculosis among HIV-coinfected patients: a case series from KwaZulu-Natal
... of TB disease for which they received between 6 and 10 months of DS anti-TB treatment, before enrolling into the TRuTH ...successful treatment completion for two prior episodes of ...
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Ethical aspects of directly observed treatment for tuberculosis: a cross-cultural comparison
... as TB can mean loss of work or the inability to work as a day ...manage treatment were the socially disadvan- taged groups, such as the homeless, those employed as day labourers or working in the private ...
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<p>Depression and associated factors among patients with tuberculosis in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study</p>
... of TB treatment in previous study might have improvement due to better duration of treatment contact with professional and their interaction could minimize their depressive ...
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Clinical profiles of early and tuberculosis related mortality in South Korea between 2015 and 2017: a cross sectional study
... of TB death was observed among eld- erly patients, indicating that special attention to this population is ...anti-TB treatment were attributed to non-TB related causes, such as acute ...
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How Ties to Professional Support Networks Impact Social Outcomes among Homeless Youth
... of TB incidence rate <10 per 100,000 ...reach TB treatment coverage and success rate to ⩾ 95% and to reduce case fatality ratio (CFR) to < ...
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Association between tuberculosis, diabetes and 25 hydroxyvitamin D in Tanzania: a longitudinal case control study
... between TB and DM [19]. In this sub-study, TB patients were recruited between February and December 2013 and followed up for a median time of ...of TB treatment) and controls, and in blood ...
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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 ...
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