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High Prevalence of Tuberculosis among Adults with Fever Admitted at a Tertiary Hospital in North-western Tanzania [PDF]
, 2012 Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in developing countries where HIV is endemic. This hospital based study was done to estimate the magnitude of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis and to determine predictors of tuberculosis among febrile ...
Kabangila, Rodrick +4 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Infectious diseases caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly common. This retrospective cohort study examined factors associated with outcomes in patients from Shanghai who had NTM pulmonary disease (NTMPD) from January 2014 to ...
Li-Ping Cheng +7 more
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Diabetes and tuberculosis: the impact of the diabetes epidemic on tuberculosis incidence. [PDF]
, 2007 BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of mortality in developing countries, and in these countries diabetes prevalence is increasing rapidly. Diabetes increases the risk of TB.
Dye, Chirstopher +6 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Patients diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have poor sleep quality due to multiple factors. We aimed to assess the sleep status and related factors of TB patients in Shenzhen, China. Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted on 461
Hailin Zhang +9 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Patients with Mycobacterium intracellulare pulmonary disease are more likely to experience poor treatment outcomes if they have been observed with microbiological persistence after 6 months of treatment.
Xuejiao Luo +6 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017 Background Emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) is a major hurdle for TB control programs especially in developing countries like China. Resistance to fluoroquinolones is high among MDR-TB patients.
Jun Chen +6 more
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European Journal of Medical Research, 2023 Objective Investigate the use of endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath (EBUS-GS) combined with Gene Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection in isolated pulmonary nodules.
Jie Cao +7 more
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Spatial Patterns of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Analysing Rainfall Patterns in Visual Formation [PDF]
, 2018 Management sustainability related tuberculosis patient treatment was limited. Tuberculosis analysis was still in the form of data aggregation. This is cross sectional survey using geographical information system, analyzed by descriptive methods, the ...
Rohman, H. (Hendra)
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background: A 3-year prospective study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (pTB) on contrast -enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)-guided pleural biopsy specimens. Method: Patients suspected with
Wenwen Sun +6 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Surgery is an important adjuvant treatment for tuberculous empyema(TE). We thus conducted a single arm-clinical retrospective study of stage II-III TE patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uni-VATS) over a 5-year ...
Wenwen Sun +6 more
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