Prevalence of sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis at Dargai, District Malakand, Pakistan: A four year retrospective study

Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) Patients Suspected to Have Drug Resistant TB in Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB Unit in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

“…Zaman et al and Akhtar et al also noted that tuberculosis was more prevalent in females than in males (21,28). Our results are also in agreement with the results of Ahmad et al who reported tuberculosis to be more frequent in females as compared to males (29). Long et al reported that females waited almost twice as compared to males to visit health care centers or hospitals in Vietnam for diagnosis (30).…”

Drug resistance pattern in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the first line drugs of pulmonary tuberculosis patients at Hazara Region, Pakistan

“…Disease in this study was found in all age groups equally but was highest in productive and mature age group of 21-40 years which is (46.76%). Finding of this study was in line with previous study by (20)(21)(22) who reported that tuberculosis is a disease of adult productive 20-50 years age group.…”

Treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis in war affected region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

“…Recently, a standardized TB prevention and control program that regularly monitors the incidence of TB and as well as drug susceptibility testing in the population has been launched at Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province [6]. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan several studies have been conducted on the prevalence of TB [7][8][9][10][11][12]. Monitoring treatment outcomes among war affected countries such as Pakistan provides evidence to assess the effectiveness of TB control programs.…”