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| Title |
A home-based approach to managing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Uganda: a case report
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|---|---|
| Published in |
AIDS Research and Therapy, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-6405-9-12 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Emmanuel Luyirika, Henry Nsobya, Richard Batamwita, Pheona Busingye, William Musoke, Lillian Nabiddo, Yvonne Karamagi, Barbara Mukasa |
| Abstract |
This case report describes an HIV-positive patient with recurrent tuberculosis in Uganda. After several failed courses of treatment, the patient was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). As adequate in-patient facilities were unavailable, we advised the patient to remain at home, and he received treatment at home via his family and a community nurse. The patient had a successful clearance of tuberculosis. This strategy of home-based care represents an important opportunity for treatment of patients in East Africa, where human resource constraints and inadequate hospital facilities exist for complex patients at high risk of infection to others. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Italy | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 62 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 16% |
| Researcher | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 11% |
| Unknown | 14 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 29 | 46% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 15 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2012.
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#17,285,668
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Outputs from AIDS Research and Therapy
#401
of 637 outputs
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#114,835
of 175,210 outputs
Outputs of similar age from AIDS Research and Therapy
#4
of 12 outputs
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