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- Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of adult mortality even after the development of effective chemotherapy, prompting the need for improved diagnostic methods.
- A study examined the effectiveness of Pap stain-induced fluorescence microscopy on salivary smears to diagnose pulmonary TB in 100 patients compared to a control group of 50 with other lung diseases.
- The results showed that the Pap method had a sensitivity of 93.02%, outperforming other staining methods, indicating it could be a reliable and rapid tool for TB diagnosis.
Article Abstract
Background: Fifty years after effective chemotherapy, tuberculosis (TB) still remains leading infectious cause of adult mortality. The aim of present study was to evaluate diagnostic utility of papanicolaou (Pap) stain induced fluorescence microscopic examination of salivary smears in the diagnosis of pulmonary TB.
Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional study of 100 individuals clinically suspected of suffering from active pulmonary TB. Control group - 50 individuals are suffering from any pulmonary disease other than TB such as pneumonia or bronchiogenic carcinoma. Fluorescence microscopic examination of two salivary smears stained by Pap stain and auramine-rhodamine (A-R) stain respectively for each patient. Ziehl-Neelsen stained sputum smear examined under the light microscope for each patient. Culture was done in all the patients for microbiological confirmation. McNemar's Chi-square analysis, Kappa test, and Z-test.
Results: The sensitivities of the three staining methods using culture as a reference method were 93.02%, 88.37% and 87.20% for Pap, A-R and Ziehl-Neelson respectively.
Conclusion: Pap-induced fluorescence of salivary smears is a safe, reliable and rapid method, which can prove as a valuable diagnostic tool for diagnosis of TB.
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