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Characteristics and outcomes of patients who received early diagnosis and tre...
1Altogether, 125 patients received ‘late’ treatment and 23 remained undiagnosed before death thus received no anti-TB treatment (see text). Comparisons between those who had... -
HIV status of TB patients in Alberta by demographic group, 2003–2012.
Abbreviations: CBO = Canadian-born 'Other'; CBA = Canadian-born Aboriginal; FBO = Foreign-born 'Other'; FBSSA = Foreign-born sub-Saharan African. *Percent of all TB cases.... -
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Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants.
¶Non-reactive to methacholine up to a dose of 1.96 mg.¶¶One individual, not subjected to methacholine, was selected based on FEV1 reversability with a value of 25%.¶¶¶Budesonide... -
Demographic and treatment outcome details of patients receiving DOT or SAT fo...
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Figures are median number of days and IQR in parentheses except for DST laboratory TAT >60 days, which is percentage and absolute value in parentheses. -
Characteristics of Study Population.
Continuous variables are presented as median and range. 1: CD: Crohn’s disease, UC: ulcerative colitis, IBS-D: diarrhea predominant IBS, IBS-C: constipation predominant IBS,... -
Model parameters.
aSpecified with reference to Cook [30] and Waage et al. [36] using distributions defined in Biosecurity Australia [31]; b Derived from Sapoukhina et al. [37]; c ABS [6], Note... -
Results of multivariable logistic regression analyses between TB disease pati...
*Married, civil union (reference) vs. single, separated, divorced, widowed. **Diabetes (reference) vs. no known diabetes. ***Total pack years calculation: (#cigarettes per day... -
Model parameters, base case and reasonable ranges.
AFB = Acid fast bacillus; AII = airborne infection isolation; GMH = Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA; NAAT = nucleic acid amplification test; PPV = positive predictive... -
Explanatory variables in the final Cox proportional hazards models associated...
*Per 10-year increase in age. Other covariates in the models included gender, extra-pulmonary manifestations, smear-negativity, and requirement of ICU care. -
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AFB = Acid-fast bacillus; HIV+ = HIV-seropositive; HIV - = HIV-seronegative; NTM = non-tuberculous mycobacteria; PPV = positive predictive value; TB = tuberculosis -
Demographic characteristics of the study participants.
NOTE: Age distribution between the groups was compared using Kruskal-Wallis test. Percentage of male individuals and positive Quantiferon tests were analyzed using chi-square... -
Primers used in this study.
a Liu et al., 2011 [19]. b Ji et al., 2007 [20]. c Wei et al., 2010 [21]. d Noteborn et al., 2013 [22]. *Positions correspond to: IBDV (JQ684022), IBV (KJ425500), AEV... -
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status, Clinical Factors, and Genetic Ancestry o...
Diverse socioeconomic and clinical factors influence susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) disease in Mexico. The role of genetic factors, particularly those that differ between... -
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abbreviations: CBO Canadian-born 'other'; CBA Canadian-born Aboriginal; FBO foreign-born 'other'; FBSSA foreign-born sub-Saharan African; IDU injection drug use; HSS... -
A 10-Year Population Based Study of ‘Opt-Out’ HIV Testing of Tuberculosis Pat...
IntroductionCompliance with the recommendation that all tuberculosis (TB) patients be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has not yet been achieved in Canada or... -
Figure S1 - A Care Pathway Analysis of Tuberculosis Patients in Benin: Highli...
Tool to estimate the Economic Burden of Tuberculosis. The tool intends to estimate the direct, indirect and intangible costs associated with tuberculosis in a user’s... -
Population characteristics.
Data are expressed as mean ± standard error or as percentages. Abbreviations: CRP: C-reactive protein, DAS28: disease activity score using 28 joint counts, DMARDs:... -
Demographic characteristics of the study population.
Continuous variables are reported as mean ± standard deviation, (5th and 95th percentile); categorical variables are presented as counts and frequencies. Abbreviations: ASA =...
