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S Shrestha, Niraj Shrestha, Nishchal Dhakal
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a serious public health threat in low- and middle-income countries. In tuberculosis, the sociodemographic aspects play a significant role in increasing the susceptibility to infection. The current st…
Abednego Samuel Dahal, Nanma T. Cosmas, Mark Ojogba Okolo
Background: Tuberculosis remains a major health problem in developing countries. The GeneXpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance (MTB/RIF) assay is a new test in many communities in Nigeria that is revolutionizing Mycobacterium tuberculosis control by contribut…
Maria Goretti Ametembun
<h3>Background</h3> Indonesia is a tuberculosis endemic high burden country. Peritoneal dry type and intestinal tuberculosis is the most extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The number of disseminated tuberculosis adult patients complained chronic recurrent burning sensation in chest and…
V. N. Guseynalieva
…ive of the study: to determine the potential improvement of tuberculosis detection in primary health care institutions ( PHC ) through identification of risk groups and screening them for tuberculosis. Subjects and methods. Tuberculosis incidence in Azerbaijan over 10 years (200 …
О. К. Киселевич, E.Yu. Radzig, Elena Vlasova, M. G. Kobulashvili, A. V. Abramchenko, et al.
The identification of millions of newly infected with tuberculosis while maintaining a sufficiently high mortality rate, despite the existing treatment protocols, confirms the urgency of the problem of diagnosing this disease and dictates the need for an interdisciplinary approac…
Yong-Le Zheng
…eneXpert in the rapid diagnosis of rifampicin resistance in tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Methods From June 2018 to March 2019, a total of 122 tuberculosis patients admitted to the People's Hospital of Yueqing were selected.Among them, 109 patients with pulmonary …
Sevgi Yaşar Durmuş, Gönül Tanır, Ayşe Seçil Ekşioğlu, Türkan Aydın Teke, Yasemin Taşçı Yıldız, et al.
Objective: Abdominal tuberculosis is a kind of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that can usually occur during the lymphohematogenous spread of first Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, develop by neighborhood from an abdominal focus or a mesenteric lymph node. The aim of this study …
Chau Duc Nguyen-Huu, Thi Thu Phuong Tran, T. H. La, Van-Tuy Nguyen
Abstract Background Tuberculosis in children remains a significant public health issue in Vietnam. This study aims to describe the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of children with pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis and to evaluate the value of certain hematologic…
Sevgi Yaşar Durmuş, Gönül Tanır, Ayşe Seçil Ekşioğlu, Türkan Aydın Teke, Yasemin Taşçı Yıldız, et al.
Objective: Abdominal tuberculosis is a kind of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that can usually occur during the lymphohematogenous spread of first Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, develop by neighborhood from an abdominal focus or a mesenteric lymph node. The aim of this study …
Lucas Yago Souza Schmidt, Dowglas Pereira De Oliveira, Valdair Lopes De Oliveira Filho, Káritas Rocha Cardoso
Tuberculosis, despite all the research and technological inputs developed in recent years, remains one of the most frequent causes of pleural effusion, especially in developing countries such as Brazil. In immunocompetent individuals, pleural tuberculosis is the most common form …
E. O. Bryukhacheva, ELENA N. LUKASHOVA, ARTYOM A. KHOLODOV, TATYANA V. PYANZOVA
Abstract. Introduction. The incidence of tuberculosis among children and adolescents in the Russian Federation is decreasing annually, but epidemiological indicators are higher in the Siberian Federal District. Aim. The aim of the study is to study trends in the clinical characte…
Liang Zhihang, Min Ou, Juanjuan Zhang, Shuyan Liu, Wenfei Wang, et al.
…type I interferon receptor 1 (IFNAR1) and susceptibility to tuberculosis in the Han population in southern China. Methods A case-control study was used, with 1 533 patients with active tuberculosis (including 1 432 tuberculosis and 101 extrapulmonary tuberculosis) as the case gro…
G. R. Guseva
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is understood as the localization of the pathological process outside the chest cavity; most often this form has a hematogenous route of transmission. There is not a single organ in the human body that could not be affected by tuberculosis; however, so…
Д. В. Плоткин, М. Н. Решетников, Tatiana Vinogradova, Yu. R. Zyuzya, U. O. Gafarov, et al.
Animal modeling of tuberculosis is necessary to study the pathogenesis of the disease and the immune response. Attempts to simulate various models of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis made on laboratory animals that are considered the most susceptible to tuberculosis infe…
Mohamed El-Shabrawy, Dalia Ibrahim, Mohammad Walaa, Mona S. Hamed, Ahmed Abdelmoaty, et al.
Abstract Background Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that is one of the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent (ranking above human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The aim of this work was to study the trend of applying the tubercu…
E. V. Kulchavenya, Denis Kholtobin
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a serious medical and social problem that does not lose its importance, despite all the advances in pharmacology and surgery. Diagnosis of urogenital tuberculosis (UGTB), as a rule, is delayed due to low index of suspicion to tuberculosis and the absen…
Thaís Zamboni Berra, Dulce Gomes, Antônio Carlos Vieira Ramos, Yan Mathias Alves, Alexandre Tadashi Inomata Bruce, et al.
…ffectiveness of a rapid molecular test for the detection of tuberculosis and to predict the behaviour of the disease in a municipality of Brazil where tuberculosis is endemic. Methods An ecological study was carried out in Ribeirão Preto-SP on a population of tuberculosis cases n…
Göran Wennergren, Hugo Lagercrantz
…gren studied medicine at Uppsala and defended his thesis on tuberculosis there. At the age of 32, he was appointed consultant physician at Gothenburg Children's Hospital. The recruitment of Wallgren proved to be quite fortunate. Wallgren developed and introduced the BCG vaccinati…
Zahid Talibi Alaoui, Mohammed Raiteb, Fatima Ihbibane, Nabila Soraa, Noura Tassi
Abstract Background Tuberculosis is a health problem in Morocco, which is increasingly indicative of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Objective To determine the epidemiological, clinical and paraclinical, therapeutic and evolutionary aspects of tuberculosis and HIV c…
Eloise T. M. Filardi, Roberto Carlos Cruz Carbonell, Fernando R. Pavan, Felipe A. Cerni, Manuela B. Pucca
… vaccination in Brazil, a pivotal tool in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide. Officially introduced in Brazil in 1925, the BCG vaccine became a symbol of prevention and public health advancement against one of the most let…
G. R. Guseva
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is understood as the localization of the pathological process outside the chest cavity; most frequently, this form has a hematogenous transmission route. There is not a single organ in the human body that could not be affected by tuberculosis, however,…
Eliza Miranda, Sandra Widaty, Sondang Sirait, Luddwi Achmad Rizky, Sri Linuwih Menaldi, et al.
Background: Cutaneous tuberculosis refers to the clinical manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis affecting the skin. Determining the type of cutaneous tuberculosis from a patient afflicted with is challenging because clinical and histopathological similarities exist b…
Sayyed Gholamreza Mortazavi-Moghaddam, Abdol Sattar Pagheh, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Alacsandra Barac, Azadeh Ebrahimzadeh
In recent years, the number of cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Iran has increased. The goal of this study was to determine the epidemiological status, clinical symptoms, diagnostic methods, and treatment strategies of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Iran, with a focus on t…
P. Venkata Ramana Babu, V. Anantha Lakshmi
Introduction: Tuberculosis(TB) is an ancient disease.It is second only to HIV as a cause for fatal infection in the developing world and remains a major global public health challenge. The term 'extra-pulmonary tuberculosis' (EPTB) refers to tuberculosis infection occuring in all…
Amal Khalil Yousif Mohammed, Maysa Khowgali AbdAlla Babker, Esraa Daffalla Mohamed Ahmed, Hasabsidu Adam Dafea, Tumadir Mohammed Adam, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis is endemic in Sudan and has witnessed a major surge amid the country’s continuous conflict. The goal of this study is to analyze the epidemiological aspects of tuberculosis in Western Sudan from 2023 to 2024, during the Sudan War. Methodology: This is a r…