Abstract

GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Noris Thais; DI VASTO CUELLAR, Gaetano; RODRIGUEZ HEREDIA, Odalys  and  BARRANCO PEDRAZA, Leonor. Clinical-epidemic behavior of pulmonary tuberculosis. AMC [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.4. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: tuberculosis is the most important human infectious disease that exists in the world, in spite of the efforts that have been invested for its control in the last decade. Objective: to determine the clinical-epidemic characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients diagnosed at the San Cristóbal Alta Verapaz, Alta Verapaz District, Guatemala. Method: a retrospective descriptive cross-cut study, of 6 years was performed in patients from San Cristóbal Alta Verapaz Hospital, Alta Verapaz Municipality, from January 2002 to May 2008. The study universe was constituted by all the patients (100%) belonging to Alta Verapaz district, with the bacteriological diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. The sample was conformed by a total of 39 patients. Clinical histories of patients were reviewed and epidemic records registered in the statistic department of the hospital constituted the secondary source of data. To these patients were applied a survey (primary source) that included qualitative and quantitative variables. Results: The most affected age group was the one of 16-25 years and the female sex. The predominant symptomatology was the cough with expectoration of more than 14 days. Prevailed in the diagnosis of patients, the new cases followed by the relapse; it did not register neither failure, nor recovered and their condition at the end of the treatment was the cured one. Conclusions: it was an increase of knowledge on tuberculosis behavior in San Cristóbal Alta Verapaz.

Keywords : TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY [diagnosis]; BACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; DESCRIPTIVE.

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