BACKGROUND Information regarding dietary nutrient intake during tuberculosis disease is lacking. We established the relationship between disease severity or wasting during pulmonary tuberculosis and nutrient intake. METHODS In a cross-sectional study of 131 adults with or without pulmonary tuberculosis were screened for human immune-deficiency virus (HIV), wasting, disease severity using 13 i...

Pulmonary tuberculosis is rampant in some countries. The disease an outcome of infection by Mycobacterium and more common immunocompromised individuals. Furthermore, mycetoma or a fungal ball can develop cavitary lesions tuberculosis. present case rare presentation pulmonary with concomitant Aspergillus diabetic Indian male. A clinical examination strong laboratory radiological workup helped es...

conclusions anti-tuberculosis drugs-induced hepatotoxicity caused treatment interruption in 5.5% of the patients with tuberculosis. the majority of the patients with dih were above fifty, and 50% the cases occurred during the first two weeks after treatment onset. physicians must carefully and closely monitor such patients. background hepatotoxicity is one of the most frequent adverse events th...

conclusions molecular epidemiology studies of infectious diseases have been useful when bacterial isolates have been clustered in a period of time and in different geographical regions with variable antibiotic resistance patterns. in spite of high geographical differences and different antibiotic resistant patterns, low genetic diversity among the studied tb isolates may refer to the low rate o...

study of educational needs in tuberculosis patients and   their family and selfcare in urmia   shainseddin shams [1] , m.s.   abstract:     introdtiction: tuberculosis is a disaster disease, in spite of progresses of technology and medical   sciences. early diagnosis and treatment is the first step of controling and prevention of diseases and patient education and his/her family is important.  ...

background :   tuberculosis  is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. approximately 10-20% of tuberculosis is extra- pulmonary tuberculosis (eptb), which is much higher (50%) in patients suffering from immunity defects such as aids. eptb diagnosis is difficult mostly because of various clinical manifestations  and aggressive  procedures needed for its diagnosis....

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and most often manifests in the lungs called pulmonary tuberculosis. transmitted via airborne droplets, so that a person with source of transmission TB to surrounding population. The purpose this study was determine effect density room conditions, lighting, temperature humidity on incidence working area Turikale Hea...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Banyumas Regency one of the districts with quite high cases in Central Java. This study aims to analyze factors that affect number tuberculosis using regression analysis count data. Poisson simplest data model has assumption equidispersion, is, mean value equal variance. However, its application, these often not fulfill...

1 Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2 Mycobacteriology Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 3...