Despite many efforts from health policy makers (local and international societies) to eradicate tuberculosis (TB), India continues to account for majority of overall TB cases and higher mortality rates as compared to global scenario. The factors such as hygiene, overcrowding, under nutrition, lack of awareness, nonavailability of rapid diagnostic tool and poor efficacy of TB vaccine, are the ma...

Tuberculosis is most common during a woman's reproductive years and is a major cause of maternal-child mortality. National guidelines for screening and management vary widely owing to insufficient data. In this article, we review the available data on (1) the global burden of tuberculosis in women of reproductive age; (2) how pregnancy and the postpartum period affect the course of tuberculosis...

CONTEXT The natural course of HIV disease progression among resource-poor patient populations has not been clearly defined. OBJECTIVE To describe predictors of HIV disease progression as seen at an outpatient clinic in a resource-limited setting in rural Ethiopia. DESIGN This prospective cohort study included all adult HIV patients who visited an outpatient clinic at Arba Minch hospital in ...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS pandemic is responsible for the resurgence of TB worldwide, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have a synergistic interaction; each propagates progression of the other. Coinfection with HIV infection leads to difficulties in both the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, increase risk of death, treatment failure and relapse....

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological aspects of childhood tuberculosis in kermanshah, iran. results: 35% of cases were male and 65% were female. of total 150 tuberculosis cases, 56% were pulmonary and 44% were extra pulmonary. the most common symptoms were fever and cough. about 16% were asymptomatic. about 17% of patients had adult pulmonary tuberculosis in the...

An audit was done on 54 tuberculosis patients presenting to Penang Hospital who died during 1993. Active tuberculosis was the cause of death in 29 (53.7%) and 48.3% were aged under 50 years. Tuberculosis was a contributory cause of death in 8 patients and in 17 patients tuberculosis was irrelevant to the cause of death. The diagnosis of tuberculosis was made after death in 17 patients (31.5%). ...

Antiretroviral therapy for HIV has led to increased survival of HIV-infected patients. However, tuberculosis remains the leading opportunistic infection and cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS. Tuberculosis has been shown to be a good predictor of virological failure in this group. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of tuberculosis and its consequences among individuals dia...

OBJECTIVE Before the Aids pandemic, demographic transition and control programs prompted a shift in the age of incidence of tuberculosis from adults to older people in many countries. The objective of the study is to evaluate this transition in Brazil. METHODS Tuberculosis incidence and mortality data from the Ministry of Health and population data from the Brazilian Bureau of Statistics were...