Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Fawzia E. Al-Otaibi, Malak M El Hazmi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Tuberculosis education Saudi Arabia Pathology and Forensic Medicine Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cohort Studies Young Adult Extra pulmonary tuberculosis Sex Factors Risk Factors Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans Young adult Lymph Node Tuberculosis Hospitals Teaching Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over biology business.industry Age Factors Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Surgery Female Lymph Nodes business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Indian journal of pathologymicrobiology. 53(2) |
| ISSN: | 0974-5130 |
| Popis: | Studies from developed countries have reported that extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is on the rise due to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. However, similar studies from high-burden countries with low prevalence of HIV like Saudi Arabia are lacking. Therefore, we conducted this study to investigate demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. A retrospective analysis was carried out on all patients (n=431) with a culture - proven diagnosis of tuberculosis seen at University teaching hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from January 2001 to December 2007. A total of 183 (42.5%) pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and 248 (57.5%) extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) cases were compared in terms of age, sex, and nationality. There were 372 Saudis (SA) (86.3%) and the remaining non-Saudis (NSA) 59 (13.7%). The age distribution of the PTB patients had a bimodal distribution. EPTB was more common at young age (20-29 years). The proportion of EPTB cases was significantly higher among NSA patients (72.9%) compared to SA patients (55.1%). Females had higher proportion (59.5%) of EPTB than males (55.6%). The most common site was lymph node tuberculosis (42%). In conclusion, our data suggest that EPTB was relatively common in younger age, female gender and NSA. Tuberculosis (TB) control program may target those populations for EPTB case-finding. |
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