background: the acceptance of hiv testing among patients with tuberculosis (tb) is low in south africa. the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, associated factors and reasons of non-uptake of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing by tuberculosis public primary care patients in three districts, south africa. methods:   in may-october 2011, this cross-sectional survey was conduct...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The source of transmission tuberculosis patients positive Acid Resistant Bacillus (positive BTA) through splashes sputum droplets that they emit. Indonesia country second highest number new cases in world after India. purpose this community service to empower people Yoka Village Prevent...

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious and contagious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dentists are susceptible to TB. Thus,the aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes of dentists regarding TB. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study evaluated the knowledge of 120 dentists regarding TB. Using a questionnaire the q...

The diagnosis of smear-negative and culture-negative patients with active tuberculosis (TB) is challenging. The detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antibodies in human sera has been an important diagnostic aid. However, detection of antibody responses to a single antigen usually has a low sensitivity for diagnosis of TB. In this study, humoral immune responses against recombinant M...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic, highly contagious disease caused by the Bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and spreads from person to through air. affects lungs majorly but also other parts of body, such as brain, intestine, spine kidney. The main cause for patient’s non-adherence anti-tuberculosis therapy ADRs varying degrees severity hepatotoxicity etc. Aim: This study aimed provide...

conclusions although very rare, mdr miliary tb can be seen in immunocompetent subjects. we, thereby, emphasize that early recognition and initiation of treatment are associated with a significant improvement in outcomes. tuberculosis remains a serious worldwide health problem associated with high morbidity and mortality. case presentation our case was a young female patient with in vitro fertil...

background: tuberculosis (tb) is currently one of the greatest problems in public health. mycobacterium tuberculosis infects about one third of the world's population, of whom more than 80% are living in developing countries. the incidence and prevalence of tb are very different in various parts of iran and also throughout the world. golestan province is one of the areas in the country where th...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The emergence of drug resistance tuberculosis (TB) is a significant challenge for TB control and prevention programmes, and the major problem is multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The present study was carried out to determine the frequency of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates among newly and retreated TB lymphadenitis patients and risk factors f...