Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan

Ahmad, Tauseef; Abdul Majid, Haroon; Hussain, Akbar; Waqar, Muhammad; Ullah, Najeeb; Ullah, Tariq

doi:10.21608/eajbsg.2015.16488

Frequency Distribution and Treatment Outcomes of Suspected Tuberculosis Patients at Civil Hospital Barikot Swat, Pakistan

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

² Institute of Microbiology, University of Sindh Jamshoro Sindh, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

³ Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University Mansehra 21300, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

10.21608/eajbsg.2015.16488

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 1^st January 2014 to 31^st 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%).

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