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RESULTSEighty patients of COPD admitted in thepulmonology ward of Jinnah Hospital/ attendingOPD were included in the study. The studypopulation comprised of 74 male and 6 females.Age of the patients ranged between 37-82 yearswith a mean of 57.9. Only 9 patients out of the studycohort were <50. All belonged to low socioeconomicstatus. History of smoking was specially probedinto regarding duration and frequency. Out of them83.7% were heavy smokers, 6.3% were moderatesmokers and only 2.5% admitted to be mild smokerswith one pack/day with 10 years duration. Sputumsamples of patients were collected following theWHO protocol. Smears were subjected to ZNstaining. Seventy nine patients revealed negativeresults whereas single patient was ZN positive forAFB (Table-I). All sputum samples were then put up on LJ culture media, the gold standard techniqueand results recorded after 7 weeks of incubationfollowing the standard protocol. Three cases werepositive at various time periods as depicted inTable-II, one of these being the ZN positive case.Part of the sputum sample was put up on theMGIT. Six patients out of 80 were positive forAFB. Two cases (2.5%) gave the positive signals inthe first week of inoculation whereas, one (1.3%)patient each was found to be positive in 2nd, 4th, 5thand 6th week(Table-III). Five of these patients were>50 years old, all were males and all 6 were smokersof different grade of severity. We also calculatedความไวและ specificity 3 วินิจฉัยmodalities การคัดกรดอย่างรวดเร็วในการตรวจสอบตัวอย่าง sputum มีแสดงผลของ MGIT ในตาราง-IV MGIT ของเหลววัฒนธรรมสื่อได้สำคัญที่สุดและเฉพาะตรวจคัดกรดอย่างรวดเร็ว
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