Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries

Setting. Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, and Yemen. Objective. To reduce the time to complete sputum microscopy. Design. Cross-sectional surveys enrolling 923 patients with chronic cough in the 4 countries and using similar protocols. Spot-morning-spot sputum specimens were collected. An additional sputum...

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Autores principales: Ramsay, Andy, Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed, Cambanis, Alexis, Hirao, Susumu, Almotawa, Ahmad, Gammo, Mohamed, Lawson, Lovett, Arbide, Izabel, Al-Aghbari, Nasher, Al-Sonboli, Najla, Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur, Gauchan, Punita, Cuevas, Luis Eduardo
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20309419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/398767
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author Ramsay, Andy
Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed
Cambanis, Alexis
Hirao, Susumu
Almotawa, Ahmad
Gammo, Mohamed
Lawson, Lovett
Arbide, Izabel
Al-Aghbari, Nasher
Al-Sonboli, Najla
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur
Gauchan, Punita
Cuevas, Luis Eduardo
author_facet Ramsay, Andy
Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed
Cambanis, Alexis
Hirao, Susumu
Almotawa, Ahmad
Gammo, Mohamed
Lawson, Lovett
Arbide, Izabel
Al-Aghbari, Nasher
Al-Sonboli, Najla
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur
Gauchan, Punita
Cuevas, Luis Eduardo
author_sort Ramsay, Andy
collection PubMed
description Setting. Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, and Yemen. Objective. To reduce the time to complete sputum microscopy. Design. Cross-sectional surveys enrolling 923 patients with chronic cough in the 4 countries and using similar protocols. Spot-morning-spot sputum specimens were collected. An additional sputum specimen (Xspot) was collected one hour after the first, and the yields of the first two or the three specimens collected as spot-morning-spot or spot-Xspot-morning were compared. Results. 216 patients had ≥ one positive smear. 210 (97%) were identified by the spot-morning-spot, and 210 (97%) were identified by the spot-Xspot-morning specimens, with 203 and 200 identified by the first 2 specimens of each approach, respectively. Neither difference was significant. Conclusions. The time to complete smear microscopy could be reduced.
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spelling pubmed-28369122010-03-22 Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries Ramsay, Andy Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed Cambanis, Alexis Hirao, Susumu Almotawa, Ahmad Gammo, Mohamed Lawson, Lovett Arbide, Izabel Al-Aghbari, Nasher Al-Sonboli, Najla Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur Gauchan, Punita Cuevas, Luis Eduardo J Trop Med Research Article Setting. Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, and Yemen. Objective. To reduce the time to complete sputum microscopy. Design. Cross-sectional surveys enrolling 923 patients with chronic cough in the 4 countries and using similar protocols. Spot-morning-spot sputum specimens were collected. An additional sputum specimen (Xspot) was collected one hour after the first, and the yields of the first two or the three specimens collected as spot-morning-spot or spot-Xspot-morning were compared. Results. 216 patients had ≥ one positive smear. 210 (97%) were identified by the spot-morning-spot, and 210 (97%) were identified by the spot-Xspot-morning specimens, with 203 and 200 identified by the first 2 specimens of each approach, respectively. Neither difference was significant. Conclusions. The time to complete smear microscopy could be reduced. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009 2009-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2836912/ /pubmed/20309419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/398767 Text en Copyright © 2009 Andy Ramsay et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Ramsay, Andy
Yassin, Mohammed Ahmed
Cambanis, Alexis
Hirao, Susumu
Almotawa, Ahmad
Gammo, Mohamed
Lawson, Lovett
Arbide, Izabel
Al-Aghbari, Nasher
Al-Sonboli, Najla
Sherchand, Jeevan Bahadur
Gauchan, Punita
Cuevas, Luis Eduardo
Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title_full Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title_fullStr Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title_full_unstemmed Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title_short Front-Loading Sputum Microscopy Services: An Opportunity to Optimise Smear-Based Case Detection of Tuberculosis in High Prevalence Countries
title_sort front-loading sputum microscopy services: an opportunity to optimise smear-based case detection of tuberculosis in high prevalence countries
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20309419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/398767
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