Pulmonary tuberculosis incidence in Turkishprisons: importance of screening and case finding strategies

This study was aimed to determine the resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among new cases, cured, failure, relapse, defaulted, treatment completed, treatment not

We would like to hearing from the authors were there characteristic image findings in sarcoidosis patients who develop pulmonary

In our two pati- ents, there was no cavitary lesion, but the patients who were referred to us with suspicion of sarcoidosis progressi- on due to the development of new

Higher rate for secondary tuberculosis was noted in smear positive (3.1%) than in smear negative (1.0%) contacts along with the efficacy of prophylaxis both in childhood and

In our population, the most commonly identified major occupational group was “craft and related trades wor- kers” (32.0%) of which “textile, garment and related trades

In the years 1953-1973, UNICEF, Ministry of Health and later efforts Turkish National Anti-tuberculosis Association jointly significant results were obtained in the fight against

There are many studies showing usefulness of bronchoscopy in patients with suspected PTbc with negative sputum smear, but there is no eno- ugh data concerning that in which cases

In the present study, in order to investigate the role of serum IFN-γ level in the differential diag- nosis of active and inactive disease, we determi- ned serum IFN-γ levels