Two recent studies in
adult tuberculosis patients in Delft in the Western Cape [11] and Standerton in Mpumalanga (J Wessels, 'Nutritional status of patients with tuberculosis and TB/HIV co-infection at Standerton TB Specialised Hospital, Mpumalanga) unpublished data) show that newly admitted patients with active tuberculosis are undernourished (body mass index <18.
She said that sense of complacency among
adult tuberculosis patients up on treatment and registering marked improvement in their condition within first few weeks' time was not only
Screening
adult tuberculosis patients for diabetes mellitus in Ebeye, republic of the Marshall Islands.
Treatment outcome of newly diagnosed sputum positive
adult tuberculosis cases in the context of HIV infection.
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in
adult tuberculosis patients at a central hospital in Malawi [Short communication].
5 -- Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been neglected for a long time and in terms of the global policy the focus has been on
adult tuberculosis.
Increasing HIV seropositivity among
adult tuberculosis patients in Delhi.
Moreover, notes the CDC report, the number of TB cases among children continues to decline, suggesting that the recent increase in
adult tuberculosis "may be the result of endogenous reactivation of latent, subclinical tuberculosis infection rather than of increased transmission.
Jeffrey Starke, a leading TB specialist at Texas Children's Hospital, childhood TB "is a fundamentally different disease from
adult tuberculosis.
2002) showed that
adult tuberculosis patients have a specific IgA response to glycolipid antigens.
History of contact with an
adult tuberculosis case was present in 25 out of 104 (24.
She feels that, "Childhood tuberculosis has been neglected for a long time and, in terms of the global policy the focus has been on
adult tuberculosis.