The report of the fifth national tuberculosis (TB) epidemiological survey in P. R. China, 2010, roughly showed that pulmonary TB (PTB) prevalence was higher in western China than in central and eastern China. However, accurately estimating the continuous
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Furthermore, among patients aged ≥ 84 years, those who did not receive PZA were significantly more likely to die than those who did (65.8% vs 36.8%; p < 0.05).Conclusions Patients aged ≥ 75 years with pulmonary TB experienced increased mortality related to TB during treatment and more ...
However, it is difficult to truly model the two phenotypes (infection vs disease) with a case–control study design. Given only 10% of people with LTBI will progress to active TB, the vast majority of healthy controls would never progress to active disease. So, the difference between LTBI ...
Clinicians need to decide whether to begin empiric therapy for patients who are suspected of having tuberculosis (TB) but have negative sputum smear results. Culture results may take weeks, and delaying treatment may allow further transmission of disease. Study objective To identify the clinical, dem...
More total cases were registered in Bijie prefecture, accounting for 37.44% of all the registered child TB cases in the province. The male to female ratio was 1.10 : 1 (51.39% vs. 48.61%) for all the registered child TB cases. The majority of the registered cases (2 258 boy cases and...
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PA pulmonary artery TB Thunderbeat (Olympus, Tokyo) VATS video-assisted thoracic surgery Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is currently the preferred treatment modality for stage I non–small cell lung cancer in many centers. Although it is a safe and effective technique in experienced...
The MTZ-infected patients were less likely to be injection drug users (9.9%) than other clus- tered patients (22.9%) (P = 0.024), and presented more frequently with pulmonary TB than all other patients (95.3% vs. 85.1%; P = 0.019). In many TB outbreaks, the patients share a common...
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