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15 December 2010, Volume 32 Issue 12

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Current status of case referring and treatment of tuberculosis inpatients in four tuberculosis specialist hospitals in China

LIU Xiao-Qiu, WANG Li-Xia, DU Ying, ZHANG Hui, JIANG Shi-Wen

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  775-778. 

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Objective To identify the status of inpatients in four tuberculosis(TB) specialist hospitals,including case reporting,referring,prescriptions and treatment outcome,for involving TB hospitals in TB control.Methods This research conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study with data collection by questionnaires,and four indicators were calculated to describe the reporting,referring,prescriptions and treatment outcome of inpatients in the four TB hospitals.Results Among the 597 inpatients,the overall rate of ...

Effect analysis of TB prevention and control among floating population in Siming district of Xiamen city

RUAN Jing-Ru, LIU Jian-Ming, LIANG Ying, CHEN Qin, SU Zhi-Shou

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  779-782. 

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Objective Objective To analyze the effect of TB prevention and control among floating population in Siming district.MethodsTB prevention and control project in floating population of China Global Fund TB Program Round 5 was implemented in Siming.The information of the TB patients in floating population were collected and analyzed.National Five rates were compared between TB patients in floating population and local resident.ResultsIn the floating population,task completion rate of new smear positive reached...

 Effect analysis of the WB/DFID TB control project in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,2002—2009

WU Wei-Dong, YANG Xiao-Yan, XUE Feng, LI Yue-Hua, YU Jing, LIU Fang-Mei, LIU Nian-Qiang, CHEN Peng

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  784-787. 

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Objective To analyze the implementation effect of the WB/DFID TB control project in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,and provide recommendations for sustainable development of regional TB control work,and provide evidence base for next ten years plan development.Methods According to the forms of the final evaluation,related information of whole 96 counties in Xinjiang were collected and analyze.Result The implementation of project fully promoted the expansion of DOTS strategy,improvement of active case dete...

 Analysis of TB/HIV patients screening in Guizhou province

PAN Jian-Min, CHEN Hui-Juan, LI Yang, CHEN Han

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  788-791. 

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Objective To understand the TB/HIV screening in Guizhou province.Methods TB/HIV screening was carried out in county level CDC from 2006 to 2008 in Guizhou.TB patients were administered HIV screening test and confirmation test.HIV/AIDS patients were screened by X-ray and sputum for TB disease.Results The number of counties which carried out TB/HIV screening work increased by year.The HIV positive rate among TB cases was 0.2%,while the TB prevalence among HIV positive cases was 6.2%.ConclusionsMost of countie...

Efficacy of prophylactic treatment for tuberculosis infection in patients with HIV/AIDS

YIN Ji-Guo, HE Wei-Hua, LIAN Zu-Yin, LIU Yan-Dong, ZHOU Pei-Lin, XIAO Ai-Qing, LIU Feng-Ren

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  791-794. 

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Objective To investigate the efficacy of prophylactic treatment with Isoniazid for tuberculosis infection in patients with HIV/AIDS.Methods Participants who were enrolled according to the prophylactic treatment standard in Suizhou City of Hubei province were treated with Isoniazid for nine months in 2006,and were followed-up for treatment outcomes.The data were compared with that of 2005.Results For all HIV-infected patients,9 month Isoniazid Treatment had no protection regarding to tuberculosis morbidity(P...

Analysis of reporting,referral and in place of tuberculosis patients in general hospitals in Urumqi

ZHANG Wei-Sheng, LI Yue-Hua, MA Yi-Xia-Ti-·Ma-He-Mu-Ti

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  795-797. 

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Objective To analyze the role of general hospitals in TB case detection in Urumqi in order to provide evidence basis for strengthening PPM-DOTS and sustainable TB control development.Methods Monthly reports and tracking registers of internet based TB reporting system were collected and analyzed.Results From 2005 to 2008,referral in place rate of tuberculosis patients were 14.7%,21.7%,27.3% and 21.2% in Urumqi General Hospitals;tracking rate were 67.7%,83.7%,99.7% and 100.0%,tracking in place rate were 29.5%...

Significance of surgical therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis by bacteriological result from 33 resected lung specimens

LI Qiang, GAO Meng-Qiu, WANG Zi-Tong, LU Yu, HAN Ming, XIE Ru-Ming, ZHAO Wei-Jie, ZHENG Mei-Qin, LI Peng, FU Lei

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  798-801. 

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Objective To evaluate the significance of the surgical therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis by bacteriological result in resected lung specimens from pulmonary tuberculosis.Method 33 resected lung specimens were collected from surgical patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who hospitalized in Beijing chest hospital from October,2008 to June,2009.All specimens were inoculated to Lowenstein-Jensen medium,and performed stain identification and drug susceptibility testing(DST),compared with results of sputum sampl...

Diagnostic value of interferon gamma release assay(IGRA) in high incidence background

LIU Xu-Hui, LE Jun, ZHANG Zhong-Shun, XIAO He-Ping

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  801-805. 

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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of interferon gamma release assay(IGRA) in high incidence background.Methods Two hundred and one cases from Shanghai pulmonary hospital were involved in this study,including 69 patients with active tuberculosis(group A),60 health-care workers from department of tuberculosis(group B),22 lung cancer patients(group C),20 pneumonia patients(group D),30 health controls(group E).Blood samples were detected the reactions of stimulated T-cells releasing interferon gamma by...

Analysis of first round external quality assessment for MTB drug sensitivity test within disease control laboratories in China

JIANG Guang-Lu, SHANG Mei, SONG Yuan-Yuan, ZHAO Yan-Lin

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  806-810. 

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Objective To evaluate laboratories' drug sensitivity test ability within disease control system in China.Method National TB reference laboratory issued 30 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates to participating laboratories.Participating laboratories performed proportion Lwenstein-Jensen medium DST recommended by WHO,drugs are isoniazid(INH),rifampin(RFP),streptomycin(SM),ethambutol(EMB).National reference laboratory checked reporting result with judicial result.Result Evaluation indicators of 4 drugs are as ...

Analysis on the epidemiological characteristics of 812 non-tuberculous mycobacteria strains

LI Xin-Jie, TAN Shou-Yong, HUANG Ye-Lun, CAI Xing-Shan, LIU Zhi-Hui

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  811-814. 

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Objective To explore the epidemiological characteristics of non-tuberculous mycobacterium(NTM) and to provide the basis for the control strategies of NTM diseases.Methods Relevant laboratory data from 2004 to 2009 regarding mycobacterial culture and species identification in Guangzhou Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Tumor Control Institute were analyzed retrospectively.Results Firstly,6083 of 32906 cases were culture positive during 6 years period,in which 4207 strains were identified,and 812 strains(19.31%) wer...

TB/HIV patients screening in global fund project in Shandong province

WANG Yu, LI Fang, GUO Xiao-Yan, JIN Jin

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  815-817. 

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Objective To analyze two-way TB/HIV disease screening in registered TB patients and people living with HIV/AIDS in Shandong province.Methods In six project counties from 30th September 2006 to 1st October 2010,all newly registered TB patients received HIV antibody test,and all HIV/AIDS patients were screened for TB disease.Results A total of 11786 cases of TB patients were registered,among which 95.0%(11191 cases) received HIV antibody test,four of them were detected of HIV positive;Among the total of 336 r...

The diagnostic value of FQ-PCR in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis

LI Xiu-Wu, LIU Jian-Qiang, ZHENG Rong-Kun, HE Ping, YANG Zhi-Ying, LI Qiu-Zhen

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  818-821. 

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Objective To explore the value of FQ-PCR in the diagnosis of active osteoarticular tuberculosis and urinary tuberculosis.Methods One hundred and eighteen cases with suspected tuberculosis including 52 arthritis and 66 urinary tract infection were collected to detect TB-DNA using FQ-PCR and mycobacteria using acid-fast staining from joint effusion and urine versus detection rate of acid fast staining.Results Thirty-six of 52 cases with arthritis were diagnosed with tuberculosis.Among 36 cases,22 cases with p...

Interventional therapy in bronchial tuberculosis

CHEN Xiao-Hong, LIN Wei, RUAN Yan, WEI Shu-Fang, CHEN Shu-Xing, CHEN Guo-Hong

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  821-824. 

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Objective To evaluate the value of interventional therapy in the treatment of tracheal and bronchial tuberculosis.Methods 60 cases with endobronchial tuberculosis were randomly divided into a therapeutic group(group A,30 cases) or a control group(group B,30 cases) which both groups were treated with 3HRZE(S)/9HRE.Group A was treated with interventional therapy.Results The sputum culture negative conversion rate was 94.4%(17/18)after 2 months' interventional therapy.The rate increased to 100%(18/18)after 12 ...

Clinical observation of treatment in multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

WANG Xiao-Ping, GU Xin-Rong, QIANG Fu-Lin, XU Zhang-Han

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  825-827. 

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Objective To evaluate the efficacy of 3CDLfxPtoZ/9DLfxPtoZ regimen for multidrug resistant tuberculosis cases.MethodsOne hundred cases who hospitalized from Oct.2002 to Dec.2005 with multidrug resistant tuberculosis were treated with 3CDLfxPtoZ/9DLfxPtoZ regimen.Sputum smear examination and liver function test were detected for every patient each month,and X-ray chest photographs were taken in the 3rd,6th,9th and 12th months during the course of treatment.Results All patients completed the treatment.The spu...

Observation on side effects of fixed-dose combination of anti-tuberculosis drug

HE Tie-Niu, HAN Yong-Xing, CHEN Bin

Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis. 2010, 32(12):  828-830. 

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Objective To observe side effects of domestic fixed-dose combination of anti-tuberculosis drug in the treatment for patients with new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis and to provide reference data for clinical treatment and management of side effects.Method 7 points based on the geography and economic condition were selected,and 120 new smear positive TB cases were enrolled in every point and were divided into three groups: study group,control group 1 and group 2 with 40 cases,respectively.The rate of ...