CLINICAL PROFILE AND SPUTUM POSITIVITY RATE OF SUSPECTED PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS PRESENTING TO A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN SOUTHERN RAJASTHAN

AMIT SATISH GUPTA; HIRENKUMAR PUNJABHAI HADIYA; AMAR GAHLOT

doi:10.22159/ajpcr.2024.v17i5.51056

Authors

AMIT SATISH GUPTA Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5151-0279
HIRENKUMAR PUNJABHAI HADIYA Department of Respiratory Medicine, Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
AMAR GAHLOT Department of Respiratory Medicine, Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ajpcr.2024.v17i5.51056

Keywords:

Pulmonary tuberculosis, Multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis, Sputum acid-fast bacilli positivity rate

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the study is to understand the sputum acid-fast bacilli (AFB) positivity rate among suspected pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients presenting to tertiary care hospital in Southern Rajasthan with symptoms of chronic cough for more than 2 weeks.

Methods: It is a retrospective observational study. Data from June 2021 to March 2024 were collected from registers maintained by the respiratory medicine department and analyzed.

Results: Out of 1720 sputum samples of suspected pulmonary TB patients that were sent for microscopy 344 were AFB positive (20%) and 292 patients (16.97%) were GeneXpert positive. A total of 21 patients (1.22%) were found to have multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB based on sputum GeneXpert testing. Most of the patients in our study were males and the sputum positivity rate was higher among diabetic and HIV-positive patients.

Conclusion: In this study out of 1720 sputum samples analyzed for suspected pulmonary TB patients, 344 were sputum AFB positive (20%) and 21 were MDR-TB (1.22%).

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