... 09748369
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and
culture in a tertiary health care facility
Biology and Medicine
SI Khatib, MT Williamson, R Singh, JM Joshi
Accepted: ... Author: kismail@jazanu.edu.sa, sayeedkhatib@hotmail.com
Abstract
Smear microscopy and culture forms the backbone of tuberculosis (TB) laboratory investig...
... practical stand point, it may
become necessary to use all three methods. The
DTC may re-examine smears prepared and stained
by general health institutions on routine basis and
prepare and ... operational factors would indirectly
influence the quality of their microscopy.
To achieve and maintain a satisfactory
standard in sputum examination, routine
supervision of...
... for atypical Mycobacteria.
Statistical analysis
As no single gold standard was available for
comparison of the performance of the individual
tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety
of ... Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
USING CONVENTIONAL TOOLS AND POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION*
Original Artic...
... difference in late-life health outcomes.
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Introduction
International comparisons of health have risen in importance as a method of gaining
insight into social and economic determinants of health ... related to heart
disease and diabetes (angina, heart attach, heart failure, hypertension, and diabetes)- the
diseases that are at the core of the Barker hyp...
... Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Abdullah A. Alshimemeri, Yaseen M. Arabi,
Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Ashwaq Olayan, and Othman Al Harbi) and Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Ziad Memish)
Address ... Abdullah Alshimemeri
Associate Professor, Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Dean, Postgraduate Education
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Nati...
... Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia,
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Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia,
3
Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, ... subscales of knowledge of PTB and categorized
into high and low knowledge of each domain using mean
value.
Information collected during the FGDs was translated
into Amhar...
... Indian
conditions. In this analysis, an attempt has been made to
mathematically estimate the above mentioned risk rates
for the Indian population aged five years and above.
Materials and ...
Ind. J. Tub., 1990, 37, 63
RISK OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH EXOGENOUS
REINFECTION AND ENDOGENOUS REACTIVATION IN A SOUTH INDIAN
RURAL POPULATION -A MATHEMATICA...
... was invari-
ably fatal within a few months and always in less than a year, while the second was
usually of several years’ duration, ending in an acute phase lasting several months.
Accordingly, ...
cases in which collapse therapy was performed, it was unilateral and almost invariably
against the initial lesion in 34 and was bilateral in 53 cases (Sekulich, 1955). I...
... of early and accurate
diagnosis is the identification of smear- negative disease (associated
with HIV infection) and MDR-TB (
WHO 2010b).
In 2011, poor diagnosis remains an obstacle to TB care and ... detection of pulmonary tuberculosis
and rifampicin resistance
Hojoon Sohn
2
, Madhukar Pai
3
, Nandini Dendukuri
4
, Lorie A Kloda
5
, Catharina C Boehme
6
, Karen R...