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Sonali Paul, Nivedita Chatterjee, Asmeeta Sircar, Shimantika Maikap, Abhilasha Singh, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) is primarily an airborne disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In a country such as India, the spread of this disease is quite rapid, especially with increasing air pollution. There are drugs for treatment, but these chemicals always have si…
Karthikeyan Sundaram, Sridhar Rathinam
Tuberculosis is a fatal infection transmitted through airborne droplet nuclei. The etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an acid-fast bacillus. Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a global challenge, with specific mycobacterial genes intricately associated with drug resi…
Rafael Laniado-Laborín
Tuberculosis is an excellent simulator and can mimic virtually any disease. Clinically, it has been divided into primary and post-primary tuberculosis. Primary tuberculosis usually refers to patients not previously exposed to M. tuberculosis. Primary tuberculosis is more frequent…
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is a re-emerging public health concern which requires special attention all around the world.Among all the infectious diseases, drug-resistant tuberculosis is now the most lethal infection causing disease in both children and adults.The co-infection of…
Gangaram Bhadarge, Nandkishor Bankar, Sudhir Singh
… a major public health problem in all developing countries. Tuberculosis, an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is also a major cause of death in humans around the world. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) survey, MTB infects o…
Dipa M. Kinariwala
…nodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the most potent risk factor for Tuberculosis progression (TB). Surveillance of HIV among & TB patients has been recognized to be important as the HIV epidemic continues to fuel TB epidemic. In those who are infected with both HIV and TB, the intera…
Do Dang Hoan, Dao Xuan Thanh, Nguyen Khac Trang, Ngô Văn Toàn
…s and prerequisites for total hip replacement in active hip tuberculosis. We carried out a quasi-experimental study. The study included 40 patients with 42 active tuberculosis hips at stage IV treated by total hip replacement from October 2016 to December 2019 at the National Lun…
Mohd. Altaf Mir, Prince Kumar, Beena Kumari, Jaya Jain
… an overview of the diagnosis and management of soft tissue tuberculosis affecting the hand. Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease that can affect any part of the body, including the hand, which can lead to significant morbidity if not diagnosed and treated promptly. The c…
Junhui Liu, Qiusheng Jing, Zhan Lian, Chunxiang Song, Qi Zhu
…of intrabronchial lipoma in a patient with active pulmonary tuberculosis. A tumor located in the right lower bronchus was unexpectedly discovered during a bronchoscopy. Following a biopsy, the histopathological analysis confirmed it to be a lipoma. After six months of regular ant…
Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller
Abstract Tuberculosis became a notifiable disease in the Cape in 1907, and throughout the South African Union under the Public Health Act of 1919. The Act, which was designed to limit infection among whites, introduced programmes for early diagnosis, treatment and notification, a…
Kelly Urban
… popular support, he strategically expanded the state’s antituberculosis campaign, founding the National Tuberculosis Council (Consejo Nacional de Tuberculosis, or CNT) in 1936. His use of tuberculosis as statecraft constituted a key plank of his populist platform, contributed to…
Weibiao Han, Xuepeng Bai, Yongxiang Cheng, Chenglong Xin, Ruifeng Fan, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Surgical treatment of thoracic spine tuberculosis using traditional procedures is often challenged by high trauma and slow recovery. This study aimed to investigate the short- and medium-term efficacy and safety of Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery, a…
F L Adão-Araújo, B G Ferreira, R Pontarolo, F S Tonin, S M Raboni
…ed as promising alternatives for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, especially in settings where sputum collection is challenging and laboratory infrastructure is limited. We aimed to map the evidence on advanced technologies available for detecting pulmonary tuberculosis u…
Mohini Agrawal, K Shyamsundar, Keerthana Raghu, Rajiv Raman, L Dhanurekha, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Intraocular tuberculosis (OTb) is a sight-threatening manifestation of Mycobaterium tuberculosis infection. It is characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical phenotypes, including anterior uveitis, posterior uveitis, retinal vasculitis, and choroiditis. Diagnosis…
Karthikeyan Sundaram, Leela Kagithakara Vajravelu
The association between tuberculosis and gut microbiota is notable clinical synergistic action. Tuberculosis is a highly contagious illness that poses a huge global risk., an acid-fast bacillus, is responsible for one of the top ten death associated lethal infection. The study of…
Margarida Saraiva, William J Branchett, Jyothi Rengarajan, Anne O'Garra
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health issue and leading cause of death. Understanding the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is critical to advance TB control. Although immune factors involved in protection against TB have long been identified, these cann…
Huicong Liu, Haoran Li, Shanshan Li, Yuanyuan Shang, Shenjie Tang, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by(). Despite significant advancements in anti-tuberculosis treatment strategies in recent years, TB remains a major infectious disease threat worldwide. Chronicinfection drives T cell exhaustion-characterized by upregulate…
Ruchi Nair, Pooja Thakur, Hitesh D. Patel
Tuberculosis (TB) management and the prevention of drug-resistant strains rely heavily on timely detection and efficient treatment. Conventional diagnostic methods, while accurate, frequently require expensive laboratory equipment and can take several weeks, emphasizing the criti…
Rodolfo L Chávez-Domínguez, Martha Torres, Atziri A Acevedo-Domínguez, Jesús A Ibarra-Inocente, Claudia Carranza
Pulmonary tuberculosis, caused by(Mtb), remains one of the leading causes of infectious disease-related mortality worldwide. In parallel, lung cancer represents the most lethal neoplasm, with high mortality rates globally. Emerging studies suggest that chronic Mtb infection may c…
Tao Shi, Tongxin Li, Xuewu Xing
Extra-pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (EPTB) is a threat and challenge to human health that affects bone, urinary, skin, soft tissues, and lymph nodes. EPTB always comes from pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), while there are some patients who have never had any PTB symptoms or (…
Stella S. Makpu, Kome Otokunefor, Tosanwumi Vincent Otokunefor
With the higher risk of tuberculosis associated with developing countries, it has increasingly become imperative to determine the genetic diversity of strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC).This is essential for establishing control programs as it provides infor…
Mohit Bhagchandani, Praveen Kumar Arya, Shashank Nigam, Sandeep Verma
… us with sub-acute intestinal obstruction due to intestinal tuberculosis. Tuberculosis infection has a high incidence in the immunocompromised individual or patients with pre-existing illness or undergoing any immunosuppression. Although many cases of abdominal tuberculosis are f…
Deepak V. Sawant, Shivaji H. Pawar, Rajendra Patil, Siddhi Sawant
…iologically documented new cases of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis of any gender and age group or untreated MTB cases and patients with anti-tuberculosis drug therapy in the past 6 months. Exclusion criteria include patients with anti-TB therapy or its constituent drugs in …
Abdul Karim Siddiqui, Vijay Kumar Garg
Tuberculosis, as a contagious pulmonary disorder, may spread easily from an infected person to a non-infected person. The Microbiologically Confirmed Pulmonary TB Survey done from 2019–2021 in a population aged ≥ 15 years shows Delhi with 534 per lakh at the top among the high pr…
Karthikeyan Sundaram, Sridhar Rathinam, Venkataraman Prabhu
Tuberculosis and systemic fungal diseases are opportunistic and challenging to diagnose. However, in immunocompromised people, especially people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV), the signs and symptoms of both diseases highly imitate each other. Primarily, chronic…