Recent Trend of Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis

Recent Progress in Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Applicable to Public Health Programs’

In spite of measures developed to control tuberculosis, the disease continues to have a disquietingly large incidence in Latin America, which has led many to question the possibility of bringing it under control. Despite underregistration of vital and health statistics, the estimated annual figures for 1968-1969 show 68,000 deaths from tuberculosis and 180,000 new cases among a total population...

Recent Trend of Display Devices

A trend of recent R & D on display devices, especially flat panel display, are reviewed. In addition, historical growing process of liquid crystal display (LCD) is reviewed from both sides of a simple matrix LCD technology and an active matrix LCD technology, and a trend of recent advanced technology is also discussed.

Recent trend in the radiological presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis in Pakistani adults.

OBJECTIVE To determine the radiological presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis in adults and to compare it with that of other national and international studies. METHOD This prospective study was done on 150 newly diagnosed smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Two chest physicians reviewed the chest radiographs. Those x-rays were selected in which there were no difference of opinio...

Short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis.

Short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis.

Although short-course, largely twice weekly chemotherapy for treatment of tuberculosis has been shown to be effective in other countries, when given under closely controlled conditions, it has not been adopted in this country where most patients are older and are treated as outpatients. Since January, 1976, 315 patients (mean age 55.5 years) with proven pulmonary tuberculosis have been treated ...