A Clinical Study of Tubercle Bacilli in Urine of the Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Park, Young Hwa; Lee, Hak Song

Abstract

One hundred and twenty-six patients with pulmonary tuberculosis having no clinical evidence of genito-urinary tuberculosis were studied for tubercle bacilli in their urine and the following results were obtained 0f 126 patients studied, 5 cases (4.0%) were found having positive tubercle bacilli in urine. of which three were found in the moderately advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and two in the far-advanced. While, in the treated group of 56 with anti-tuberculous drugs for pulmonary tuberculosis, three cases were positive for tubercle bacilli in urine, of which two were found in the moderately advanced and one in the far-advanced of pulmonary tuberculosis, two cases were also positive in the non-treated group of 70, of which one was found in the moderately advanced and another in the far-advanced of pulmonary tuberculosis. Two instances of positive tubercle bacilli in urine were found in the group of treatment for less than 6 months and only one in patients having treatment for more than 6 months.