Infection control and the burden of tuberculosis infection and disease in health care workers in china: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Hospitals with inadequate infection control are risky environments for the emergence and transmission of tuberculosis (TB). We evaluated TB infection control practices, and the prevalence of latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease and risk factors in health care workers (HCW) in TB centers in Henan province in China.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2005.

[A survey on the infection rate of tuberculosis among employees of the antituberculosis institutions in Henan province, China].

Objective: To study the situation of tuberculosis (TB) infection among the employees of the anti-TB institutions in Henan.

Methods: Cross-sectional study was adopted the employees working in all municipal-level- anti-TB institutions and 40 anti-TB institutions at county-level selected randomly from 109 counties of the province were regarded as surveyed objects. Tuberculin skin test (TST) was used to test the infection with PPD.

[Treatment of AIDS patients with Chinese medicinal herbs qudu zengning capsule].

Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effect of QuDu ZengNing Capsule on AIDS.

Methods: QuDu ZengNing Capsule is a capsule containing extract from 4 Chinese medicinal herbs. Totally 1,000 AIDS patients were treated, among them 60 patients were clinically observed weekly.