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Provedor de dados: 	55	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Tuberculosis: a study of 111 cases in an area of high prevalence in the extreme south of Brazil	
Autores: 	Mattos,Ivo Gomes de; Ribeiro,Marta Osório; Netto,Isabel Cristina de O.; d'Azevedo,Pedro Alves.	
Data: 	2006-06-01	
Ano: 	2006	
Palavras-chave: 	Tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Resistance.	
Resumo: 	Tuberculosis is an increasingly important public health problem in developing countries. We studied 111 tuberculosis patients confirmed by mycobacteria isolation between 1998 and 2000 in Rio Grande, in south Brazil. One-hundred-thirteen pulmonary and extrapulmonary clinical materials were examined through culture by the Ogawa-Kudoh method and through smear examination by the Ziehl-Nielsen or Kinyoun methods. The identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was done through the usual phenotypical methods. The proportion method (indirect technique) was used to determine the resistance of isolates. The man/woman ratio was 2.6:1, 75% were white, and the group had a mean age of 39.7±12.7. Risk factors were present in 38.7% (34 men and 9 women, p=0.2), with a mean age of 35 (p=0.002); infection by HIV was the most frequent (28.8%), followed by alcoholism (16.2%) and injected drug use (15.3%). The frequency of M. tuberculosis isolates was 99.1%. Pulmonary disease occurred in 88.3% of the cases, extrapulmonary in 9.9% and 1.8% in both. There was an association between extrapulmonary tuberculosis and the presence of risk factors (p=0.0001). Resistance to isoniazid was found in 4% of the isolates and to isoniazid and rifampin in 2%, all being patients with some risk factors. The profile of tuberculosis in the population of this study followed the pattern described for developing regions of the world.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000300008	
Editor: 	Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1413-86702006000300008	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.10 n.3 2006	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess