Aim: to develop an assay system of a radioisotope (32P)-based PCR dot-blot hybridization technique and evaluation of the assay directly for TB sputum samples to detect mutation at codon 306 of embB gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis related with ethambutol (EMB) resistance. Methods: one hundred and sixteen of sputum samples were used in this study. Bacterial genome in sputum samples was extr…
Discription Conditions Sputum and Quality Preparation Smear for Diagnosis of Tb-Lung Disease. In Improving the diagnostic acuracy of pulmonary TB in microscopic diagnoses the need for uniformity and accuracy of test results. Until now PRM clinic (referral center microscopic) has worked as a vanguard for examination preparation (slide) smear, without ever doing surveillance of the quality and un…
Spinal fusion for spondylitis tuberculosis is performed to diminish infection source, correct deformity and overcome neurologic complication. Data of spinal fusion rate has not been available yet. The other problem is that branded instrumentation price is very expensive. The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to evaluate successful rate of spinal fusion in spondylitis tuberculosis perfo…
Patients with tuberculosis who had completed treatment but did not do sputumrechecking at the end of treatment phase reached 117 people (20% oftotal patients). The drug consumption supervisor has a duty to remind thepatient to carry out sputum rechecking. This study aims to determine thecorrelation role of drug consumption supervisor with the compliance sputumrechecking at the end of treatment …
Background: Histopathological examination is paramount in patients with suspected lung cancer, because it is a gold standard for lung cancer diagnosis. Sputum cytology examination is the only non-invasive examination that can detect lung cancer, besides it is quite cheap and can be used widely. Objective: The aim of this study is to compare whether any sensitivity differences among once 3% sal…
Tuberkulosis merupakan penyakit infeksi yang persisten dan bersifat chronis yang disebabkan oleh mycobacterium Tuberkulosis (MTB) dan umumnya mempengaruhi paru-paru. Di Indonesia TB-Paru masih merupakan maslah kesehatan hingga saat ini karena prevalensi BTA (+) masih tinggi (0,29%), dan merupakan penyebab kematian nomor dua terbesar, dan merupakan nomor satu dalam kelompok penyakit infeksi. Unt…