background: routinely collected data from tuberculosis surveillance system can be used to investigate and monitor the irregularities and abrupt changes of the disease incidence. we aimed at using a hidden markov model in order to detect the abnormal states of pulmonary tuberculosis in iran. methods: data for this study were the weekly number of newly diagnosed cases with sputum smear-positive p...

background and purpose: tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that is commonly caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. as kurdistan province is close to iraq (risky due to political instability in recent years), the bane city had high interaction with iraq, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis in bane (kurdistan) between 2003 and 2010. materials and methods: thi...

The aim of this work was to attempt analyze the demographic structure, clinical and radiological forms tuberculosis COVID-19, as well course outcome disease in patients with coinfection light a new still poorly understood problem mutual influence COVID-19. Material methods . Examination treatment were carried out infectious-tuberculosis departments Botkin Clinical Infectious Disease Hospital. W...

introduction and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) still remains a major health concern both in developing and developed countries. the rate of the liver injury due to anti-tb drugs in developed countries has been reported up to 4%. the goal of this study is to assess the rate and risk factors for anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury (dili). also, a model has been designed to predict dili in...

Background: Laryngeal tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common complications of pulmonary tuberculosis, which increased for various reasons such as more prevalence of immune system suppression diseases, increasing the survival of the elderly, immigrants from high-risk areas and the appearance of atypical or resistant organisms over the past two decades, and its clinical pattern changed compa...

tuberculosis is a major health problem in iran and its laryngeal involvement is not uncommon. laryngeal tuberculosis is so infectious and delay in diagnosis and treatment could result spread of disease and causes divesting complications. we reviewed clinical and para-clinical characteristics of patients with laryngeal tuberculosis in iran. in a cross sectional study, patients with laryngeal tub...

world health organization (who) has reported that out of more than 10,000 of 250,000 tuberculosis afflicted children die annually. pulmonary tuberculosis is a research priority in our country, and diagnos-ing this disease especially in children who are known as the major transmitter of the disease is rather difficult. as a result, it was decided to conduct an overall assessment on this age grou...

introduction tuberculosis is a contagious disease and a main cause of mortality in humans thus the world health organization has declared it as a global emergency. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of tuberculosis and involving factors in patients referring to the diagnosis laboratory of tuberculosis in ahvaz east health center. materials and methods the present study is a re...