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Diagnosis Of Pulmonary And Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis In The Institute Of Chest And Respiratory Diseases In Baghdad/Iraq

Author:

Ruqaya Mustafa Ali, Amina N. Al- Thwani, Ahmed Asmer Mankhi and Genan Kamel

Subject Area:

Physical Sciences and Engineering

Abstract:

A retrospective analysis was carried out on all patients (n=680) with a culture- proven diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) seen at the Institute of Chest and Respiratory diseases / Baghdad – Iraq from (April / 2010 – August / 2011). A total of 643 (31.2%) pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and 37 (4.6%) extra- pulmonary TB (EPTB). The age distribution of the TB patient had a bimodal distribution. Males to females' ratio 2.06 with highly significant level for males than females (P values of < 0.001). The most common site with (EPTB) was pleural TB (37.8%). In conclusion, our data suggest that TB infection involve all age groups, mal gender may be independent risk factor for both form of TB.

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