Screening outcomes of household contacts of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Peshawar,Pakistan

作     者：Arshad Javaid Mazhar Ali Khan Mir Azam Khan Sumaira Mehreen Anila Basit Raza Ali Khan Muhammad Ihtesham Irfan Ullah Afsar Khan Ubaid Ullah 

作者机构：Post Graduate Medical InstituteLady Reading Hospital Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB UnitLady Reading Hospital Peshawar Medical College Kohat University of Science and Technology Kohat 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第9卷第9期

页      面：886-889页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Tuberculosis Household contacts MDR-TB Peshawar Pakistan 

摘      要：Objective:To assess the profile of TB/multidrug-resistant TB(MDR-TB) among household contacts of MDR-TB patients.Methods:Close contacts of MDR-TB patients were traced in the cross-sectional study.Different clinical,radiological and bacteriological were performed to rule out the evidence of TB/MDR-TB.Results:Between January 2012 and December 2012,a total of 200 index MDR-TB patients were initiated on MDR-TB treatment,out of which home visit and contacts screening were conducted for 154 index cases.Of 610 contacts who could be studied,41(17.4%) were diagnosed with MDR-TB and 10(4.2%) had TB.The most common symptoms observed were cough,chest pain and fever.Conclusions:The high incidence of MDR-TB among close contacts emphasize the need for effective contact screening programme of index MDR-TB cases in order to cut the chain of transmission of this disease.