Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan | ||
| Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, G. Microbiology | ||
| Article 9, Volume 7, Issue 1, December 2015, Pages 77-82 PDF (326.23 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/eajbsg.2015.16488 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Tauseef Ahmad1; Haroon Abdul Majid1; Akbar Hussain1; Muhammad Waqar2; Najeeb Ullah3; Tariq Ullah3 | ||
| 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan | ||
| 2Institute of Microbiology, University of Sindh Jamshoro Sindh, Islamic Republic of Pakistan | ||
| 3Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| 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%). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| tuberculosis; Treatment outcomes; Retrospective study | ||
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