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| Soto,Alonso; Solari,Lely; Agapito,Juan; Acuna-Villaorduna,Carlos; Lambert,Marie-Laurence; Gotuzzo,Eduardo; Stuyft,Patrick Van der. |
| This study developed a clinical score based on clinical and radiographic data for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SNPT). SNPT was defined as a positive culture in Ogawa in a patient with two negative sputum smears. Data from patients admitted to the emergency ward with respiratory symptoms and negative acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smears was analyzed by means of logistic regression to develop the predictive score.Two hundred and sixty two patients were included. Twenty patients had SNPT. The variables included in the final model were hemoptysis, weight loss, age > 45 years old, productive cough, upper-lobe infiltrate, and miliary infiltrate. With those, a score was constructed. The score values ranged from -2 to 6. The area under the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tuberculosis; Pulmonary; Regression analysis; Scoring methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000200006 |
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| Zarrinfar,Hossein; Kaboli,Saeed; Dolatabadi,Somayeh; Mohammadi,Rasoul. |
| Abstract Candida species, especially C. albicans, are commensals on human mucosal surfaces, but are increasingly becoming one of the important invasive pathogens as seen by a rise in its prevalence in immunocompromised patients and in antibiotic consumption. Thus, an accurate identification of Candida species in patients with pulmonary symptoms can provide important information for effective treatment. A total of 75 clinical isolates of Candida species were obtained from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with pulmonary symptoms. Candida cultures were identified based on nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS1-ITS2 rDNA) sequence analysis by polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Candida; Pulmonary; PCR-RFLP. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000100172 |
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