background: tuberculosis (tb) continues to pose a major global health problem and thus intensive action is needed to control and ultimately eliminate the disease . methods: an active case finding (acf) survey was conducted in the urban slum areas of the r-south municipal ward of mumbai city for a period of two months from june to july 2012. micro planning for survey was done by district tubercu...

Background.  The Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)/rifampicin (RIF) is a fully automated diagnostic test that allows for the detection of MTB including its RIF resistance. Although the test is used for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in sputum samples worldwide, studies using fecal specimens are scarce. We therefore evaluated the efficacy of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for detection of MTB i...

OBJECTIVES To identify clinical, radiological and microbiological factors associated with the non conversion of sputum smears in new smear positive cases of pulmonary tuberculosis after two months of treatment and to evaluate the influence of non-smear conversion on treatment outcomes. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Tuberculosis centre of Hôpital Jamot in Yaoundé- Cameroon from ...

Background: There is growing evidence that diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important risk factor for tuberculosis (TB). A significant number of DM patients have poor glycemic control. This study was carried out to find the impact of poor glycemic control on newly diagnosed smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care hospital.Methods: In a hospita...

Background Pretreatment loss to follow-up (PTLFU) is used as performance indicator of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of India. Objective To document the PTLFU, identify additional indicators and examine documentation of all the diagnosed sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients under RNTCP. Methodology Tuberculosis (TB) laboratory, referral for treatmen...

a 24‑year‑old, unmarried woman diagnosed of pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) visited our hospital out‑patient department in the month of august‑2013. patient came with the complaint of sever cough with expectoration; evening raise of temperature; gradual loss of appetite and weight since 2‑weeks. we referred the patient to our hospital’s revised national tuberculosis program, direct observed treatm...

Results H2S levels in induced sputum from severe and nonsevere asthmatic patients were significantly higher than those from healthy subjects but there was no difference between the severe and non-severe group. Serum H2S levels were 10 times higher than in sputum and these were also higher in severe and non-severe asthmatic subjects compared to healthy subjects. There was a positive correlation ...

We evaluated the usefulness of repeated nebulized saline induced sputum examinations among 60 HIV infected patients clinically suspected to have Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). We found that the first sample was positive for 15 episodes (21.4%); the second sample was positive in 33 episodes (47.1%); the third sample was positive in 22 episodes (31.4%). Repeated nebulized saline induced sp...

Differentiation of M. tuberculosis and M leprae by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), when acid-fast bacilli (AFB) were present in sputum from patients at Anandaban hospital, was carried out. Thirty sputum samples microscopy positive for AFB were collected and were subjected to culture. Bacterial DNA was extracted and PCR was performed using primers specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Myc...

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a common infection worldwide. In the eastern part of Iran, fluctuations in tuberculosis prevalence are seen due to the migration of people from Afghanistan. The aim of this study was to evaluate the time of bacteriologic sputum conversion after treatment and affecting factors in those whose smear does not become negative.This study was carried out on 85 smear-positive ...