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Smear microscopy and culture conversion rates
among smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis
patients by HIV status in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mbazi ... [15].
Conclusion
Conversion rate of standard smear microscopy and
fluorescence microscopy did not differ between HIV
positive and HIV negative pulmonary...
... finding in most developing countries. This
relies heavily on sputum examination by smear
and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin skin
testing. Under ideal circumstances, a test for
tuberculosis ... observed in 29.4 % smear
negative samples thereby indicating the
superiority of culture over smear microscopy,
whereas no growth was observed in 4.6 %
smear posi...
... identification and susceptibility testing. The PLPH must report positive smear
and culture results to the zone MOH or First Nations and Inuit Health (FNIH) MOH if the individual
lives in a reserve ... transmission.
Results of sputum smear and cultures for AFB. Individuals whose sputum is smear- positive
are more infectious than those whose sputum smears are negative....
... Distribution of Frequencies and Percentages
of Languages Used in Medical Training in the Workplace…………………… 56
Table 4.5 Distribution of Frequencies and Percentages
of Having People in the Workplace ... the Pretesting Phase
of the Questionnaire…………………………………………………………… 43
Table 4.1 First Research Question and its Sub-questions….……………………………….53
Table 4.2 Distribution of Fr...
... default rates of nearly 19% in extra-
pulmonary TB (EPTB) and approximately 28% in smear-
negative PTB (including EPTB). This and other related
studies have indicated a background of HIV infection in
these ... health-care ser vices [16]. These
differences between this study and other study results
could be explained by differences in sample size among
the studies, di...
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... an increase in loan rates is
estimated. In the other case, we estimate the model restricting the observations to be either no
changes or decreases in loan rates.
Table 7 gives the results of estimating ... rates are slower to increase when other market interest rates rise than they
are to decrease when market rates fall.
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Mester and Saunders (1995) analyze changes in the...
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Empirical results
The results of the baseline OLS estimations of changes in checking account rates
and money market deposit account rates are illustrated in Tables 3 and 4, respectively.
Estimations ... Again, since deposit rates change very infrequently, the changes of the dependent variable are
only driven by changes in the interbank rate.
Bank mergers and the dynam...
... countries, five (Finland, Ireland, Spain, Switzer-
land and the US) have interest rates that have, on average, been lower than Taylor-
implied rates over the sample period. In Finland, interest rates ... GDP and
construction activities).
4.1 What Is The Impact of Too Low Interest Rates On Hous-
ing Bubbles?
Our baseline regression for analyzing the impact of low interest rates...
... Pennacchi, and Peter Ritchken, 2008, “Estimating Real and Nom-
inal Term Structures Using Treasury Yields, In ation, In ation Forecasts and In ation
Swap Rates, ” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working ... in LIBOR rates into changes in bank debt risk
premiums and changes in a factor specific to the interbank market that includes a liquid-
ity premium. It also allows hyp...