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Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan

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Tuberculosis
(TB) is one of the major public health problems all over the world especially
in developing countries. The current study was design to assess the frequency
distribution of suspected TB patients and find out the treatment success rate
at Civil Hospital Barikot, Swat Pakistan. A retrospective study was conducted
from 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2014. A total of
211 suspected TB patients comprised male to female ratio was (44.08%) and
(55.92%) respectively were included in the study. Among the total registered
patients (40.28%) were pulmonary tuberculosis positive (PTB +ve), (33.65%) were
pulmonary tuberculosis negative (PTB –ve) and (26.07%) were extra-pulmonary
tuberculosis (EPTB). In term of treatment outcomes, (21.33%) were cured and
(76.78%) were treatment completed while all the registered cases were new
cases. It was concluded that the treatment success rate was notified high
(98.1%).

DOI

10.21608/eajbsg.2015.16488

Keywords

tuberculosis, Treatment outcomes, Retrospective study

Authors

First Name

Tauseef

Last Name

Ahmad

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Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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tauseef.ahmad@hu.edu.pk

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Haroon

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Abdul Majid

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Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Akbar

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Hussain

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Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Muhammad

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Waqar

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Institute of Microbiology, University of Sindh Jamshoro Sindh, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Najeeb

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Ullah

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Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Tariq

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Ullah

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Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Volume

7

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1

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3520

Issue Date

2015-12-01

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2018-10-13

Publish Date

2015-12-01

Page Start

77

Page End

82

Print ISSN

2090-0872

Online ISSN

2090-0880

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EAJBSG_Volume 7_Issue 1_Pages 77-82.pdf

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, G. Microbiology

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https://eajbsg.journals.ekb.eg/

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Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan

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22 Jan 2023