Comparison of acid fast bacilli (AFB) smear for Mycobacterium tuberculosis on adult pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and without type 2 DM.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2015, Indonesia ranked as second country in the world with the highest number of pulmonary tuberculosis cases. By 2015, the number of pulmonary TB new cases in Indonesia has increased to 330.910 cases of 2014 where 324.539 cases. DM is one of the most important factors that influence the occurrence worsening TB. Now is known that DM patients have body's immune response disorder thereby facilitating M. tuberculosis infection and causing TB.

Method

This research is cross sectional design. The sample in this research are adult pulmonary TB patients at General Hospital Grade C period October 1, 2013-March 31, 2016 as much as 225 patients.

Result

AFB smear results in patients with type 2 DM with smear 3 + was 14

SUBMITTER: Fachri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5925956 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature