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Epidemiological characters of Tuberculosis in Salahaldeen Governorate during 2008. | ||
| Medical Journal of Tikrit | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 171, 2012, Pages 99-111 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ruqiya Subhi; ; | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Study the some epidemiological characters of tuberculosis in Salahaldeen Governorate during 2008. Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted on 238 suspected referral cases of tuberculosis who attended the consultant clinic of respiratory diseases of Salaldeen Governorate from 1st January to 31st December 2008. After full history taking and thorough physical examination a CXR was done for each patient and sample of sputum was taken for zeihl nelson staining. The males were 51.5% while the females were 48.5%, the diagram of the registered cases of tuberculosis from 2000 to 2008 showed that the highest detection cases was in 2000, where 891 cases registered at that year, while the lowest registered cases was in 2006, where only 191 cases registered. Extra pulmonary cases constituted about 36.70% of the cases , active pulmonary tuberculosis cases constituted about 17 %, the negative smear cases were 43 % and the extrapulmonary cases constituted 3.30 %. The highest registered cases was in Tikrit District 83 cases while in Dour District was only 7 registered cases. The highest cases of pulmonary tuberculosis also registered in Tikrit District 53 cases while in Dour was only two cases. Pleural effusion was the most frequent type of extra pulmonary tuberculosis where 41 cases registered from the whole cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Regarding the frequency of new smear positive cases to the summation of positive and negative smear results was 50% in Dour district and only 21 % in Tikrit District. Tuberculosis is still the most serious health problem in Salahaldeen Governorate . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Epidemiological characters of Tuberculosis in Salahaldeen Governorate during; Salahaldeen | ||
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