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David E. Minnikin, Oona Y.-C. Lee, Houdini H.T. Wu, Gurdyal S. Besra, L Bull, et al.
…ars ago. A previous investigation diagnosed the presence of tuberculosis in the remains, using biomarkers specific for tuberculosis. DNA fragments were amplified and lipids known as mycolic acids were profiled. The specificity of this diagnosis is now reinforced by the detection,…
Rabie Ayari, Ramy Triki, Youssef Mallat, Achraf Abdennadher, Khalil Amri, et al.
The association of pulmonary tuberculosis and Behçet’s disease revealed by an aneurysm of the humeral artery is exceptional with a complicated management. We report a case in which the two conditions occurred concomitantly with the vascular complication, apart from any use of imm…
Shantanu Bhati
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by aerobic acid fast bacilli (AFB). Usually, the organism mainly affects the lungs, causing pulmonary tuberculosis. However, in addition to pulmonary tuberculosis, bones, joints, marrow, lymph nodes, intestines, ki…
Varun Goel, Neha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Sharma, Umesh C. S. Yadav, Roshan Tirkey
The present case report discuss about Caries sicca, tuberculosis of glenohumeral joint. In India, tuberculosis is very common. Shoulder TB, albeit uncommon among skeletal tuberculosis, should be considered while diagnosing and treating Caries Sicca patients. A twenty-year-old wom…
Anete Trajman
Tuberculosis preventive therapyTherapyPreventive (TPT) is a key strategy to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2050. However, less than one-fifth of those needing TPT complete it because of the many losses through the complex tuberculosis infection (TBI) cascade of care. The largest …
Reni Zuraida, Sayidina Umar Achfisti, Gusti Destiana
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, primarily affecting the lungs (pulmonary TB), though it can also infect other organs.This study aims to analyze the factors influencing the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis in the working area of the…
Elizabeth JeyaVardhini Samuel
…chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), drug resistant tuberculosis, lung cancer. Consequently, COPD is associated with a significant economic burden, including hospitalization, work absence, and disability. Objectives: Altruitic association between contraception, rising env…
Maria Soledade Garcia Benedetti, Émerson Ricardo de Sousa Capistrano, Angela Maria Félix Alves Oliveira, Elba Urzedo de Freitas Lamounier, Karla Cristina Souza Rocha, et al.
…jective: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of tuberculosis among Venezuelan immigrants in the state of Roraima, Brazil. Methods: A descriptive and retrospective study, data were collected from the Information System of Notifiable Diseases - Sinan, in the period from…
Anshu Sharma, Anurag Sharma
Tuberculosis (TB) is a constant illness brought about by the microbes Mycobacterium TB (MTB) and is a transferable sickness that spreads starting with one individual then onto the next through air. It largely influences the lungs; hence itis also known as pulmonary tuberculosis (…
Egídio Torrado, Reinout vanCrevel, Ana Raquel Afonso, Diana Amorim, Raquel Duarte
The interaction of <italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic> with components of the innate and acquired immune system has significant implications for the clinical outcome of infection (clearance, latency or progression to active disease). Thus, the risk of progressing from LTB…
Andrea Rachow, Naomi F. Walker, Brian Allwood, Marieke M. van der Zalm, Anthony Byrne, et al.
…cesses are likely to be important: 1) <italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic> infection-driven tissue damage, and 2) pathological tissue remodelling following active disease. The PTLD phenotype that is currently best described in the data is obstructive airways disease in adu…
Abdulrahim A. Alzain, Fatima A. Elbadwi
Tuberculosis is a worldwide health problem that threatens to worsen as resistance to existing drugs emerges. Despite huge research efforts, there is a critical demand for the discovery of new drugs against tuberculosis (TB) with unique mechanisms of action. The Mycobacterium coen…
Beaulah Jeyavathana Rajendran, K. V. Kanimozhi
Tuberculosis is one of the hazardous infectious diseases that can be categorized by the evolution of tubercles in the tissues. This disease mainly affects the lungs and also the other parts of the body. The disease can be easily diagnosed by the radiologists. The main objective o…
Shraddha Lavhale, Rehan Khan, Preenon Bagchi
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a species of pathogenic bacteria of the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis.First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, M. tuberculosis has an unusual, waxy coating on its cell surface primarily due to the presence of mycolic…
Spinal tuberculosis in pediatric patients is frequently associated with multiple vertebral lesions and could be complicated by kyphosis. The diagnosis should be confirmed by culturing or molecular–genetic study of the pathological tissues that are harvested from the zone of bone …
Linda Bryder
…shed in 1980, showed pneumoconiosis to be very prevalent. 4 Tuberculosis has not been a major problem in that industry or elsewhere in Britain since the early 1950s when streptomycin and related drugs were introduced. However, Glover’s study showed many of the lungs of the older …
Vinay Jasani, Ahmed Abdelaal, Mohamed Mohamed
…ost challenging problems facing the global fight to control tuberculosis. Drug resistance to antituberculous chemotherapy is a spectrum which includes mono-drug resistance (e.g. rifampicin resistance), multidrug resistance (MDR), extensively drug resistant (XDR), and finally tota…
Hemali Savla, Bhushan S. Bhale, Nisha Sharma, Pradnya R. Petkar
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is a major public health problem affecting millions of people worldwide. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Mtb has further increased the disease-related mortality…
Musarrat Afza, Sam Ghebrehewet, Merav Kliner
… covers two case studies and scenarios: a case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in a college student; and a case of laboratory-confirmed Mycobacterium bovis in an adult with inflammatory bowel disease. The pulmonary TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) case resulted in a wider investiga…
Ranjita Rout, Priyadarsan Parida, Bibhu Prasad, Sonali Dash
Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious infectious disease generally caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). It is transmissible in nature that spreads through airborne droplets. It affects mainly the lungs and also to the other parts of the body such as kidneys, spine, brain, etc. Th…
Ankush Parmar, Tanzeer Kaur, Shweta Sharma
Tuberculosis (TB) holds a central and deadly platform around the globe, affecting mankind with around one-third of the world being affected by latent TB. TB progresses in the body through inhalation process and has a critical discrimination in terms of affecting individuals depen…
Sethi Amit, A. Puneet, S. Prabhpreet
Infection by the organism Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) may not lead to clinical disease in the majority of human beings because of the immune system of a healthy person which prevents disease. However, the bacteria still remains in the body in a hidden form which is known as …
Evelina Lesnic, Alina Malic
…usceptibility testing are the gold standard in diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). However the use of the new molecular genetic test for identification of Mycobacterial tuberculosis DNA based on polymerase chain reaction contributed to earlier diagnosis of TB, prompt start of the tre…
Sonia L. Betancourt
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an obligate aerobe, nonmotile, non-spore-forming bacillus. TB is a major cause of morbidity and mortality especially in developing countries. Patients with impaired cellular immunity including HIV (+…
Terry E. Robinson, Jane Scullion
Abstract This chapter covers the key facts about tuberculosis (TB), then goes on to describe the epidemiology and pathophysiology of the disease. Risk factors, and signs and symptoms, and investigations are all covered. The treatment phase and standard drug therapies are shown, a…