J. bras. pneumol. vol.30 número4

Hospitals with the highest rates of TB mortality were the Hospital Estadual Santa Maria (Santa Maria State Hospital; 184 deaths – 16% of the total), Instituto Estadual de Doenças

The lack of appropriat e biosafet y measu res t o reduce the risk of TB infection in hospitals, as well as the presence of resistant strains, make hospitals an environment in

The protocol for processing the clinical samples prior to PCR analysis and the specific primers used to amplify the 123bp IS 6110 fragment showed a greater efficiency in

Conclusions: a) the TST positivity rate was high (7.9%) among students; b) TST was correlated with in- hospital training stage; c) evaluation of the booster effect lead us to

Results: A single pattern was seen in 39 (70.9%) of the isolates, whereas 16 isolates (29.1%) showed clustering patterns and were grouped into 8 clusters of 2 patients each..

Objective: To compare the performance of rapid colorimetric assays for phenotyping that employ oxidation- reduction indicators to determine the susceptibility profile of

commercial extraction kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and a DNA isolation reagent (DNAzol, Gibco BRL/ Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD, USA), adapted for use on a small

In humans, t he immu n e defen se syst em iden t ifies t he presen ce of the bacilli and establishes a response, characterized by a chronic granulomatous inflammatory reaction