title: [The results of the chemotherapy of a patient cohort with pulmonary tuberculosis followed-up for a 3-year period].
abstract: In 1992, in the fourth district of Bucharest 184 news adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were registered, and they received specific chemotherapy. The initial sputum bacteriological examination was M+C+ in 63.1% of these patients, M-C+ in 21.7% and M-C- in 15.2%. After three years of surveillance the results of the treatment were evaluated. 27 patients were excluded from the initial group, because they failed to be controlled. The final results were influenced by the sex and the initial bacteriological examination of sputum: the persistent negativation of sputum was obtained in 96.2% of the women, and only in 89.5% of men; depending on the initial bacteriological sputum examination, 100% of the M-C+ cases were negated, but only 86.4% of the M+C+ group.
authors.affiliation: Institutul National de Pneumoftiziologie Marius Nasta, Bucureşti.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mihăilescu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Didilescu
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ibraim
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lugoji
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dediu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chiotan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012383:Romania; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents