The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Tuberculosis (TB) a global emergency in 1993. Prevalence of TB and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) co-infection worldwide is 0.18% and about 8% TB cases have HIV infection. Effective chemotherapy has been available for treatment of TB for ...
empiric tb treatment of severely ill patients with hiv and presumed pulmonary tb improves survival hhs public access W Katagira,ND Walter,SD Boon,... 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 Early Outcomes of MDR-TB Treatment in a High HIV-Prevalence Setting in Southern Africa Background Little is known ...
1.MacMahon H , Naidich DP, Goo JM: Guidelines for management of incidental pulmonary nodules detected on CT images: From the Fleischner Society 2017.Radiology284(1): Supplement, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2017161659 Treatment of Solitary Pulmonary Nodule ...
A clinical practice guideline on treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease by the American Thoracic Society (ATS), European Respiratory Society (ERS), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is ...
In 2010, there were about 8.8 million incident cases of TB around the world, and China has the world’s second largest number of incident cases (0.9–1.2 million) (Treatment of Tuberculosis: Guidelines for National Programmes. World Health Organization, 2011). High-risk population identification ...
In patients receiving treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB), change in sputum culture from positive to negative is the principal outcome measure of a therapeutic response in both clinical practice1 2 and drug trials.3 Patients will often stop producing sputum early in the course of treatment.4...
A treatment scheme for MDR-PTB patients will provide insights on policy and strategy development consistent with the “End TB Strategy” [1]. The treatment for MDR-PTB patients is either long therapeutic schedule (18 to 24 months) or short treatment plan (9 to 12 months) [5]. Long ...
It indicated that the algorithms had considerable potential to screen suspected COPD patients, which would help early diagnosis of the disease and subsequently increase the rate of smoking cessation and preventive treatment, so as to improve prognosis of COPD. As we know, the diagnosis of COPD ...
The latter included smear status, average time-to-liquid-culture positivity of pre-treatment sputum or other airway secretion specimens; i.e. those specimens collected on or up to 8 weeks before the start date of treatment, and first-line anti-TB drug resistance. Laboratory cross-contamination ...
11. World Health Organization: Treatment of tuberculosis: guidelines. 4th edition. WHO/HTM/TB/2009.420. 12. Alrajhi AA, Al-Barrak AM: Extra pulmonary tuberculosis, epidemiology and patterns in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Med J 2002, 23(5):503–508. 13. Ukwaja K, Alobu I, Ifebunandu N, ...