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Analysis of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and sociodemographic and clinical...
Bonin,Camilla Resende; Fochat,Romário Costa; Leite,Isabel Cristina Gonçalves; Pereira,Thamiris Vilela; Fajardo,Marina de OliveiraABSTRACT Objective To determine the occurrence of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and its association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients in a referral hospital. Methods This was a cross-sectional study based on data from patients who had mycobacterial culture identified and defined antimicrobials sensitivity profile (June 2014 to February 2016). The descriptive statistical analysis...
Comparison between Ogawa-Kudoh and modified Petroff techniques for mycobacteria...
Costa,Ronaldo Rodrigues da; Silva,Suzane Fernandes da; Fochat,Romário Costa; Macedo,Raquel Leite; Pereira,Thamiris Vilela; Silva,Marcio RobertoABSTRACT Objective To compare the performance of the Ogawa-Kudoh method with the modified Petroff technique in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. Methods A total of 205 sputum samples from 166 patients with clinical suspicion or under pulmonary tuberculosis follow-up, seen at a public tertiary care hospital, from July 2014 to July 2016 were used. All samples were simultaneously processed using the Ogawa-Kudoh...