results cox regression analysis showed that co-infection with hiv significantly affects the survival rate of tb patients so that the rate of death was 20.7 (8.1-53) times more than tb infected patients alone. also, married patients with tuberculosis were 2.7 times more at risk of death than single subjects. we also confirmed that in hiv/tb positive patients, married individuals were more prone ...

background: early pleural tuberculosis (tb) diagnosis is particularly difficult. the aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the xpert mtb/rif (xpert) (cepheid, sunnyvale, ca) assay using pleural biopsy and pleural fluid specimens in patients with suspected pleural tb but who had a negative sputum acid-fast bacilli (afb) smear. materials and methods: in this study, 134 s...

background: natural killer (nk) cells are the effector cells of innate immunity that respond to infection and tumor. interactions between killer cell immunoglobulin like receptors (kir) and human leukocyte antigen (hla) class i molecules regulate nk cells responses to eliminate infected and transformed cells. objective: to investigate the impact of kir genes, hla ligand genes, and kir-hla combi...

Background and Purpose: Several evidences have shown some synergistic effect of diabetes co-morbidity on the tuberculosis (TB) treatment results, while some other studies have not found such associations. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between TB-diabetes co-morbidity and outcomes of TB treatment. Materials and Methods: The research population in this case control study were ...

background diabetes mellitus (dm) due to suppressive effect on cellular immunity can impact on progression of tuberculosis (tb). objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of dm on the epidemiological, clinical and para clinical aspects of pulmonary tb. patients and methods the information of 148 admitted pulmonary tb patients in infectious ward of razi hospital in ahvaz fro...

background while tuberculosis (tb) can be diagnosed by microscopy and culture, the sensitivity of ziehl-neelsen staining is variable and culture results require 4 - 8 weeks to be determined. polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and its modifications, including nested pcr, might be promising methods for the rapid diagnosis of tb. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the performance of nested pcr o...

miliary tuberculosis (tb) is due to hematogenous spread of mycobacterium tuberculosis. clinical manifestations are nonspecific and protean, depending on the predominant site of involvement.we evaluated the clinical manifestations of 15 patients with miliary tb. the diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis was based on the identification of miliary nodules on chest radiography and one of the three foll...

conclusions in the region under study the prevalence of tb among the prisoners was higher than the general population. the main risk factors for pulmonary tb in this population were close contact, idu and hiv infection. results from the reported 4562 patients with tuberculosis, 363 (7.9%) were prison inmates at the time of tb diagnosis. prevalence of tb cases among the prison inmates was 403.3 ...