Sentence examples for tuberculosis ascertaining from inspiring English sources

We next compared the early ART program outcomes of patients with Xpert-positive and Xpert-negative tuberculosis, ascertaining outcomes after 30 and 90 days from the time of program enrollment when the tuberculosis screening was done (Table 4).

World Health Organization: Global tuberculosis control 2011.

TB was ascertained according to a standard procedure, in which there was a presence of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) on smears from sputum, and the isolation of M. tuberculosis on culture.

Our study findings, nevertheless, highlight the importance of ascertaining the HIV-infection status of every child diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Participants were seen for study visits 2 and 8 weeks after enrollment; those who did not attend appointments were traced by a field worker who came to their homes, at which point vital status and tuberculosis treatment status were ascertained.

The predictive power of our model could be further refined if the relationship between succinate concentrations [ SUC] and the fluxes of the ICL and MCL reactions inside M. tuberculosis cells could be ascertained experimentally.

When she fell ill with fever and a cough, doctors quickly ascertained that she had caught tuberculosis from one of her inmate patients.

In order to ascertain true exposure to M. tuberculosis, most of the genetic studies conducted so far have focused on comparisons of cases with PPD-positive controls.

We present the first study to ascertain levels of drug resistant tuberculosis since the adoption of multi drug short course therapy and establishment of a DOTS program in 1992 [ 16].

Studies in a number of species have evaluated the role of IL-6 in tuberculosis, however conflicting data can be found when attempting to ascertain whether IL-6 exerts beneficial or detrimental effects in tuberculosis.

Specifically, the cumulated data on the results of tuberculosis screening of these workers over the past ten years gave us an opportunity in this study not only 1) to estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis in this population of workers, but also 2) to ascertain if any significant time trend or changes had occurred in the prevalence of tuberculosis among these workers during the recent past.