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Charles Kenechukwu Okoro, A. Abdullahi, Ayodeji Oluwatobi Ojetunde, Abdulmudallib Ibrahim
Background. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis is complex, costly, and usually has poor outcomes. Treatment default is well known as a very significant factor associated with dru…
Omair Mazhar, Sher Alam Khan, Muhammad Arsalan Qaisar, Zafar Iqbal Bhatti, Mahwish Akhtar Qureshi, et al.
…f the study was to govern the incidence of various forms of tuberculosis and the status of BCG vaccination in children. Study design: A Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of the Study: In the Pediatrics department of Jinnah hospital, Lahore for one-year duration from Janua…
Upasana Das, Kalyani Prava Gauda, Indrani Mohanty, Atanu Kumar Bal, Sasmita Hotta
Introduction: Infection with tuberculosis is a worldwide health concern. Nearly every organ in the body can be affected by Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (EPTB). A simple diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) can be made using radiography and a positive sputum test. On the other…
Fan Wu, Bin Yang, Yan Xiao, Lili Ren, Hong‐Yi Chen, et al.
BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is a chronic infectious disease and an important public health problem. Despite progress in controlling tuberculosis, the incidence of tuberculosis in China is still very high, with 895000 new cases annually. This case report describes the investigation of…
Valentina Aksenova, Alla Gordina, С. А. Стерликов, D.А. Kudlаy, Daria Kucheryavaya, et al.
…ing in children 7-15 years old on the clinical structure of tuberculosis and epidemic risk of detected patients. Subjects and Methods : 1,679 children aged 7-15 ill with tuberculosis. Result . The following has been observed in active case finding of tuberculosis versus tuberculo…
Ihor Dmytrovych Duzhyi, N.M. Kyrychenko, V.V. Hlynenko
… compare the diagnostic features of individuals with family tuberculosis within the context of reorganizing the tuberculosis control service. Materials and methods. The study involved the analysis of diagnostic results and management of 406 patients within a cluster of family tub…
Chirag H Chakravarti, Rushikesh R Yadav, Arti Shah, B. M. Patel, Duddilla Sai Venkata Vishwanath Gupta
Introduction: Mycobacterium tuberculosis interacts with the body’s immune system, resulting in the migration of neutrophils, followed by monocytes and macrophages, which activate T cells and eventually lead to clinical symptoms. Anaemia and other thrombocytic and leucocytic param…
З. Р. Рашидов, N. N. Parpieva, S. K. Alidzhanov
…COVID-19 pandemic on the structure and course of urogenital tuberculosis (UGTB) in Uzbekistan. Subjects and Methods. A retrospective cohort comparative study of the urogenital tuberculosis structure by clinical data for 2018-2021 was carried out. The data of 2,866 patients with e…
Sengadhir Vendhan. R, A. Velavan, D. Elanchezhian, M. Vasanthakogilam, Navilson Binoth, et al.
Background: Most often diabetes and tuberculosis present together and complicate each other at many levels. Studies show people with diabetes were at three times higher risk of developing tuberculosis. Study done in Kerala have reported that the prevalence of diabetes is higher a…
Putu Indira Paramitha Maharani, Baiq Auliya Cahya Putri, Siti Annisa Rahmasita
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the most common cause of death from infectious disease world-wide. In the UK, the incidence of TB has risen by 25% over the last 10 years; and almost one third of all case of tuberculosis are found in South East Asia. Extrapulmonary diagnosis remains cha…
Abhinay Krishna Soni, Prashant Puraskar, Akash Shrikhande, Shweta Soni
Introduction: Tuberculosis though primarily, is a pulmonary disease, it may manifest as Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (EPTB). The gold standard method for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is blood culture. Increased activity of Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) is observed in t…
M. P. Korchagin, М. А. Прокопович
…mine the place of surgery in the diagnosis of genitourinary tuberculosis (GUTB). Subjects and Methods. We retrospectively analyzed the surgical protocols and medical records of 174 patients who underwent surgery in Extrapulmonary Department of Clinic no. 2, Moscow Research and Cl…
Ihor Dmytrovych Duzhyi, Г.П. Олещенко
Objective — to investigate the trend of tuberculosis incidence of medical workers of Sumy region during the period of reforming medical institutions of antituberculosis type during 2010—2019.Materials and methods. A total of 87 medical workers fell ill with tuberculosis in Sumy …
Radoslav S. TODOROV, Evelina S. MLADENOVA, Dilyana ZHELEVA, Veselin M. VASILEV, E Zhivkov, et al.
Tuberculosis is a disease that appears mainly in a pulmonary form and is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In humans, it is caused by different bacteria of the mycobacterium family. Non all of the mycobacteria family subtypes can cause tuberculosis. In most common cases it is…
Amirath A. Sanni, Habiba A. Mariam, Ahlam Bassir, Bouchra Fakhir, Karam Harou, et al.
Objective: Tuberculosis is a contagious infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is often pulmonary but in rare cases extrapulmonary such as genital tuberculosis. The aim of this study is to report two cases of genital tuberculosis at the Mohammed VI Univer…
O.E. Fedorenko, V.I. Stepanenko, S Ivanov, T.О. Lytynska
The seriousness of the global significance of tuberculosis, an infection that is both old and new, was discussed extensively at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York in the summer of 2023. This seemingly purely medical issue received widespread attention for the public's un…
Yunus R. Mohd, A.A. Ahmad, Aamir Ahmad
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, occurs in about 2 billion people. Approximately 8 million people/year develop the active form.1,2 Tuberculosis in the hand is manifested as osteomyelitis in carpals, metacarpals and phalanges.1 Musculoskeletal tuberculosis occ…
Thushyanthan Guruparan, Tanjina Nasrin, Pratiksha Karki, Riotsuko Saito, Zehra Gul, et al.
…act Introduction Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and tuberculosis (TB) are both granulomatous disease which can have similar clinical manifestations and organ involvement. This report discusses a case of such overlapping clinical presentation and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmi…
Sujeet Kumar, Sunil Swick Rout, Triyambakesh Mohanty, Subrat Kumar Barik, Sidhartha Giri
…an healthcare centers, introduction According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2023 by the World Health Organization (WHO), about 7.5 million people were newly diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2022. 1 India contributed to 27% of the newly diagnosed TB cases globally in 2022. 1 Lym…
Natalia Rachwal, Raja Idris, Viola Dreyer, Erik A. Richter, Thomas A. Wichelhaus, et al.
Abstract Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) presents with nonspecific symptoms which can pose a diagnostic challenge. Currently, there are no clear predictors for EPTB. We aimed to identify these factors for better diagnosis and disease control. We included tuberculosis cases rep…
Raden Angga Kartiwa, Firda Muthia Elsyanty, Grace Setiawan, Niluh Putu Ayu Dewi, Shanti Fitrianti Boesoirie, et al.
Ocular tuberculosis occurs in 1.5-18% of all extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases, with orbital tuberculosis being a very small proportion of all cases of ocular tuberculosis. High variability of manifestations of orbital tuberculosis may result in delayed diagnosis. Children are th…
Jainal Arifin, MD, Nasrum Massi, MD. Ph.D, Firdaus Hamid, MD. Ph.D, Andi Alfian Zainuddin, MD. Ph.D
…l receptor that stimulates the innate immunity response. In tuberculosis, toll-like receptors, particularly the TLR-2, and TLR-4 are crucial in recognizing various ligands with a lipoprotein structure in the bacilli. Vitamin D deficiency leads to lower expression of these recepto…
Rajesh Agrawal, Rajat Agarwal, Utkarsh Gupta
<b>Introduction:</b> Tuberculosis is major health concern worldwide. Extra pulmonary Tuberculosis accounts for 20% cases which remain undetected due to its diverse clinical presentation and lack of diagnostic means. Early detection of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance is a pr…
Apollo Nobre Torres, Mírian Akiko Kawamura, Yasmin Neves Vieira Sabino, Aline Dias Paiva
Background and Objectives: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease and presents risk factors linked to social and behavioral issues, as well as comorbidities. This study aimed to evaluate tuberculosis cases reported in Uberaba/MG between 2013 and 2023. Methods: A cross-sectional st…
Naglaa Mostafa Elsayed, Jehan H Alsharif, Nourah M. Alharthi, Raghad R Alsmadani, Reem M Almutairi
Tuberculosis remains a global public health problem over the past decades. Mycobacterium tuberculosis affect the lungs causing pulmonary tuberculosis and may affect other organs causing extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Organs most commonly affected are the central nervous system, gas…