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Tuberculosis
Scientists at United Nations Children's Fund target tuberculosis
June 9th, 2009
According to recent research from Geneva, Switzerland, "Urban clinic, Nairobi. To evaluate the impact of specimen quality and different smear-positive tuberculosis (TB) case (SPC) definitions on SPC detection by sex." "Prospective study among TB suspects. A total of 695 patients were recruited: 644 produced >= 1 specimen for microscopy. The male/female sex ratio was 0.8. There were no significant differences in numbers of men and women submitting three specimens (274/314 vs. 339/380, P = 0.43). Significantly more men than women produced a set of three 'good' quality specimens (175/274 vs. 182/339, P = 0.01). Lowering thresholds for definitions to include scanty...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-09)
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