OBJECTIVE To review the characteristics of public-private mix projects in India and their effect on case notification and treatment outcomes for tuberculosis. DESIGN Literature review. DATA SOURCES Review of surveillance records from Indian tuberculosis programme project, evaluation reports, and medical literature for public-private mix projects in India. DATA EXTRACTION Project character...

Introduction. Among infectious diseases, tuberculosis ranks first in terms of morbidity and mortality. It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any organ body. Case Report. A 29-year old female patient, bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccinated, human immunodeficiency virus-negative, non-smoker, active athlete, presented with magnetic resonance imaging spine indicating vertebral body collapse T...

Background: The aim of the study was to frequency female genital tract infection using cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT), sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative value and diagnostic accuracy CBNAAT.Methods: This prospective observational conducted among 100 patients as per inclusion criteria with in Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut over ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the patient information process before sputum sample collection, the quality of sputum sample and transmission of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) examination results to TB suspects, in three local areas of Nicaragua. METHODS (a) directed interviews of consecutive series of TB suspects whose sputum had been examined for AFB; (b) directed interview of health personnel; and (c) asses...

conclusions concurrent pulmonary nocardiosis and tuberculosis is frequent in hiv-infected patients. rapid and sensitive methods such as pcr are recommended for detection of such co-infections. results from 157 sputum specimens, positive samples by acid fast staining, culture and pcr for m. tuberculosis were reported for 7.6% (12/157), 10.1% (16/157) and 7% (11/157) of samples, respectively. no ...

To the Editor: Mycobacterium shigaense is a novel, slow-growing, scotochromogenic mycobacterium (1), initially reported in 2012 as an opportunistic pathogen isolated from skin biopsy samples from a patient with a history of Hodgkin disease and severe cellular immunodeficiency. We describe the identification of this species in a chronic cutaneous infection in an immunocompetent woman. A 56-year-...