The diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children is notoriously difficult to establish, and this is in great part due to the rarity with which the tubercle bacillus is found. In the adult reliance is placed on the discovery of the bacillus in the sputum, and, unless this is done, the diagnosis must always remain in some doubt. The presence of the tubercle bacillus, if it can be demonstrated ...

presence of fungal agents in lesions of two patients in tehran was studied. one of them had clinical symptoms of mycetoma in his foot, and the other had a skin infection in his arm. examination of the lesions indicated nocardia asteroides. these patients did not show any evidence of nocardia infection in other parts of the body. negative results were obtained from the cultures of blood and sputum.

BACKGROUND Light-emitting diode fluorescence microscopy (LED-FM) has been shown to be more sensitive than conventional bright field microscopy using Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) stain in detecting sputum smear positive tuberculosis in controlled laboratory conditions. In 2012, Auramine O staining based LED-FM replaced conventional ZN microscopy in 200 designated microscopy centres (DMC) of medical colleg...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of a streamlined strategy for improving tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic evaluation and treatment initiation among patients with presumed TB. DESIGN Single-arm interventional pilot study at five primary care health centers of a streamlined, SIngle-saMPLE (SIMPLE) TB diagnostic evaluation strategy: 1) examination of two smear results from a single spot sputum sp...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is currently the world's leading cause of adult death from a single infectious disease. Sputum examination remains the cornerstone of diagnosis in epidemic situations. Automated identification of tubercle bacilli on sputum specimens would have many benefits. Objective: To use an automated method to detect tubercle bacilli in sputum specimens. Study Design: Using fl...

Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), in which airway inflammation has been reported to be a key factor, is an important component of asthma. However the precise role of inflammation in AHR is still unclear. In this report, airway inflammatory changes were assessed using hypertonic saline-induced sputum examination and exhaled nitric oxide analysis, and the relation between AHR to methacholine, air...

Nonadherence with anti-inflammatory treatment is a frequent cause of continued symptoms in asthmatic patients. Clinical assessments including patient-reported medication administration may provide the asthma specialist incomplete information regarding actual adherence to anti-inflammatory medications. The objective of this report was to describe the first case where adherence to inhaled asthma ...

Clinicians have been interested in the macroscopic and protocol (fig 1), based on that described by Pin et al using a relatively low output ultrasonic nebuliser (output 0.9 ml/ microscopic appearance of sputum in asthma since the last half of the 19th century when Charcot-Leyden crystals, min, particle size 5.6 lm), results in successful sputum induction in 76% of normal and asthmatic subjects ...

were negative, thus excluding the above conditions. The Wassermann reaction was negative. Repeated examination of sputum (direct smears, antiformin method and guinea-pig inoculation) showed absence of R. tuberculosis. The fever and cough continued for one month while symptomatic treatment was given. On 22nd June, 1934, the patient complained of severe dyspnoca, incessant cough with a large amou...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis and anemia are both prevalent in Tanzania. There is limited and inconsistent literature on the association between anemia and sputum conversion following tuberculosis treatment. METHODS Newly diagnosed sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients aged ≥15 years initiating on standard anti tuberculosis therapy were recruited from 14 of 54 tuberculosis...