{"id":315,"date":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/factors-influencing-the-bacillary-load-among-sputum-positive-category-i-dots-tuberculosis-cases-in-district-rohtak-haryana\/"},"modified":"2019-09-22T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:41:23","slug":"factors-influencing-the-bacillary-load-among-sputum-positive-category-i-dots-tuberculosis-cases-in-district-rohtak-haryana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/2015\/04\/30\/factors-influencing-the-bacillary-load-among-sputum-positive-category-i-dots-tuberculosis-cases-in-district-rohtak-haryana\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTORS INFLUENCING THE BACILLARY LOAD AMONG SPUTUM POSITIVE CATEGORY I DOTS TUBERCULOSIS CASES IN DISTRICT ROHTAK, HARYANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Har Ashish Jindal, Jagbir Singh Malik, Bhumika Bhatt, Meenal Gupta, Kalpana<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABSTRACT<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Background: Tuberculosis remain one of the major public health problem. Many studies document that a high pre-treatment bacillary load can lead to poor outcomes. Objective: The present study was undertaken to determine pre-treatment smear grading among New Sputum Positive Tuberculosis patients and to determine factors that are associated with high pre-treatment (3+) smear grading. Design: It was a cross-sectional study for 12 months and NSP TB cases, who were to start their Category I treatment regimen at DTC, DOTS Centre, were recruited. After enrolment, various parameters were studied (recorded) on a pre designed, pre-tested, semi-structured schedule. Results: The study had 71.3% males and 28.7% females. Nearly, half (49.5%) of the subjects had a high pre-treatment bacillary load (3+). \u00a0On logistic regression consumption of tobacco and duration to reach DOTS treatment were found to be independently associated with increased pre-treatment bacillary load of the disease with an odds ratio of 2.405 and 3.726 respectively Conclusion: The consumption of tobacco and duration of the patient reaching the RNTCP treatment influence pre-treatment bacillary load. It is recommended to adopt health life style by a complete halt of tobacco smoking and active screening of TB patients to reach the unreached within appropriate time frame.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key words: Sputum Conversion, tobacco, smoking, pre-treatment bacterial load, tuberculosis.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/admin\/ufile\/1430453337IJTA_20_9-15.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Har Ashish Jindal, Jagbir Singh Malik, Bhumika Bhatt, Meenal Gupta, Kalpana ABSTRACT Background: Tuberculosis remain one of the major public &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12","category-volume-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npaa.in\/journal-ijta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}