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Tuberculosis
Reports outline tuberculosis study results from J.N. Lin et al
June 9th, 2009
According to a study from Taiwan, "Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major global health problem. Extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) manifests with protean symptoms, and establishing a diagnosis is more difficult than pulmonary TB (PTB)." "A university-affiliated hospital in southern Taiwan. To analyse the risk factors for EPTB compared with PTB. This retrospective study compared patients with EPTB and PTB in southern Taiwan by analysing their demographic data and clinical underlying diseases. Risk factors for EPTB were further analysed. A total of 766 TB patients were enrolled in this study, with 102 (1.3.3%) EPTB and 664 (86.7%) PTB cases. Of the 766 patients, 3% of PTB...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-09)
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