background: bcg vaccination which is administered to prevent tuberculosis is sometimes associated with serious complications. this study aimed to determine the incidence of complications of bcg vaccination in babol. methods: all infants who received bcg vaccination between 2011-2013 in health centers of babol entered the study. data regarding complications of vaccine were extracted according to...

background the unregulated availability and irrational use of tuberculosis (tb) medicines is a major issue of public health concern globally. governments of many low- and middle-income countries (lmics) have committed to regulating the quality and availability of tb medicines, but with variable success. regulation of tb medicines remains an intractable challenge in many settings, but the reason...

In the title compound, {[NaTb(C(7)H(6)NO(2))(4)(H(2)O)(2)]·C(2)H(5)OH·H(2)O}(n), the Tb(III) atom is eight-coordinated in a slightly distorted square-anti-prismatic geometry defined by four carboxyl-ate O atoms and four pyridine N atoms. The bond lengths lie within the range 2.3000 (2)-2.326 (2) Å for the Tb-O bonds and 2.543 (3)-2.553 (3) Å for the Tb-N bonds. The Na(I) atom is five-coordinate...

Aggregate monthly notifications of incident sputum smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) in Mongolia, stratified by sex and age groups, were analysed separately for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and the rest of the country for the 9-yr period from 1998 to 2006. TB notifications were compared with ambient surface temperature. More than twice as many TB cases were notified in the peak month (April) compared ...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious and contagious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dentists are susceptible to TB. Thus,the aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists regarding TB. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study evaluated the knowledge of 120 dentists regarding TB. Using a questionnaire the q...

Background: Microscopic smear examination is the most common test in tuberculosis (TB) detection. It is, however, not strong enough to identify TB in the majority of afflicted individuals; thus, a significant number of TB patients are smear negative and capable of transmitting the infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of smear-negative TB in northwest Iran.Methods: In this c...