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Nirupam Nadella, Prince Saha, Rajeev Bahadursha, Korvi Nitish Kumar, Madhur Anand
A BSTRACT Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is the clinical entity that is gaining more recognition. Still, it may emerge in various ways, making it difficult to diagnose. Even though pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common variety, EPTB may affect many organ systems and often…
Iryna Kostitska, M. M. Ostrovskyi, Iryna Makoida, Olha Molodovets, Liudmyla Babliuk, et al.
…ty is strongly concentrated on the fight COVD-19, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis. The combination of two or more concurrent nosologies is a major problem in patient management. Thus considering the abovementioned facts, we would like to focus your attention on such comorbidities as diabe…
Anita Svadzian
Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading infectious disease killer worldwide after COVID-19; accounting for more than a quarter of the global TB burden, India shoulders the greatest TB burden in the world. High-quality care in TB includes early and accurate diagnosis, followed by …
Deependra Kumar, Abhisheka Kumar
Introduction: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging as major problem due to poor management of drug-sensitive as well as drug-resistant TB. This study designs to assess clinical-demographic and radiological characteristic of MDR pulmonary tuberculosis. Material an…
PrasantaKumar Das, SomtirthaB Ganguly, Bodhisatya Mandal
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) still remains the major public health threat in India. Early diagnosis, so as to initiate early treatment is a priority as any delay, may complicate the prognosis further leading to the failure of an effective control. India accounts for 6% incidence…
William Han, Suraj K. Saggar, Paul S. Han
… often evaluated for malignancy, infectious causes, such as tuberculosis (TB), may be under-recognized, particularly in asymptomatic individuals. Methods: We present a case series of five patients diagnosed with tuberculosis during the evaluation of lung nodules in a community-ba…
N.U. Joshi, Richa Sinha, A. Lois, Sushma Save
… frequent form of panniculitis in paediatrics for which the diagnosis is almost always clinical. The most common cause in children is streptococcal pharyngitis.The association of erythema nodosum with tuberculosis is well known in endemic areas and must always be excluded. All ch…
Mariano Guillermo Bonanno
Background: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis mainly affects the respiratory system but can spread to other organs. Its resistance arises from inappropriate use of antibiotics, complicating treatment. Its control depends on rapid diagn…
Fatima Jehangir, Rizwana Hashmi, Tooba Khalid Khan Alizay Lateef, Maha Zubair, Abeer Tasleem, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) still remains a major health issue in Pakistan, despite the introduction of directly observed treatment short course strategy (DOTS) by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1995. Major progress towards the disease control, however is achieved after the…
Shagun Walia, Varinder Singh
…old boy who was diagnosed to have sputum negative pulmonary tuberculosis. Anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) was continued for it and he initially showed improvement but later transitioned into a slowly progressive persistent pneumonia. In this scenario, most appropriate approach …
Gina Oda, Cynthia Lucero‐Obusan, Patricia Schirmer, Mark Holodniy
Abstract Background US and global elimination of tuberculosis (TB) is an important goal. Despite decreased incidence, CDC predicts elimination of TB in the US will not occur in the 21st century without improved detection and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI). We describe th…
Muhammad jamshaid Khan, Syed Qamar Uddin, Omer Ahmed
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most prevalent diseases globally, with an estimated 10.6 million new cases reported in 2022.1 The causative agent is the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and its classic symptoms include cough, fever, dyspnoea, chills, stabbing chest pain…
Harriet Owles, Mirae Park, Elizabeth Whittaker, Amanda Williams, Banu Williams, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Of the 10 million incidence cases of TB estimated in 2017, 10% were in children. The diagnosis of TB in the paediatric population remains challenging due to the paucibacillary nature of the disease. Culture co…
Mukund Kumar Deo, Amod Rayamajhi, Bimala Baniya, Susan Bhattarai, Sristi Upadhyay, et al.
<ns3:p>Multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in children is rare and requires tremendous skill and knowledge of clinicians for early detection and treatment. This case highlights the complexities in diagnosing and treating MDR-TB in young children. An 18-month-old immunocomp…
L.D. Todoriko
…aders in the global ranking of morbidity and mortality from tuberculosis (TB) and, according to WHO, ranks 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe according to these indicators. Objective — to analyze the regional features of the epidemiology of tuberculosis among children in the Cher…
Milton Kumer Saha, Md Lylatul Kadir, Ahsan Mohammed Hafiz, Kazi Hafiz Uddin, Md. Atiqul Islam, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a primary global health concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Bangladesh, which ranks among the top 30 high-burden nations. Despite national control efforts, regional disparities in TB prevalence persist, especially i…
Ashutosh Kumar, Keshav Chandra, Chandramani Kumar, Shalini Sunderem, Shubhashish Sircar
BACKGROUND: Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has become major public health problem and obstacle to effective control of tuberculosis. Over a period of time, there are several landmark achievements including policy and system preparedness for universal access to TB care includin…
Vildan Gürsoy, Fahir Özkalemkaş, Aslı Görek Dilektaşlı, Ezgi Demirdöğen, Vildan Özkocaman, et al.
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a systemic infectious disease that is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and which can affect many tissues and organs. Despite the development of curative and preventive therapies in recent years, TB continues to be a serious health prob…
Swati B Gajbhiye, Madhavi V. Madkey, Dilip S Gedam
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) kills close to half a million Indians every year. Lack of reliable rapid diagnostic techniques for TB hampers timely diagnosis and leads to continued disease transmission, causing significant morbidity and mortality. The potential of newly recommende…
Courtney M. Yuen, Moorine Sekadde, Brian Kaiser, Brenda Waning, Stephen M. Graham
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children and adolescents globally.1 While children generally experience better treatment outcomes with less drug-related toxicity than adults when treated for TB disease or infection, the length of common treatment …
Hannah Gorgui-Naguib, Che Cootauco, Gurjinder Sandhu, Padmasayee Papineni
Abstract Background Miliary tuberculosis (mTB) is a severe presentation of TB with high mortality. We reviewed data from a cohort of patients with mTB in an area of London serving an ethnically diverse population with the highest TB endemicity in the UK. Methods Retrospective ana…
Nisha Kumari, Anuj Khatri
…ations regarding the management of neonates of mothers with tuberculosis are variable and no tangible guidelines have been advised. Congenital TB is fatal if untreated, moreover the mortality and morbidity is increased if the diagnosis and treatment is delayed. Therefore, the tre…
RabiuIbrahim Jalo, AdamuMuhktar Mubarak, Fatimah I. Tsiga-Ahmed, Aminatu Kwaku Ayaba, Usman Muhammad Ibrahim, et al.
Background: Emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) continues to threaten global tuberculosis (TB) treatment, care, and prevention, and it remains a major global health problem in many low- and middle-income countries with high morbidity and mortality. Objectives: …
Francisco Javier García Pérez, Julio Ancochea
Despite the progress achieved in recent decades, tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem in wide areas of the world geography, and caused more than 1.6 million deaths in 2017. The eruption of cases with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extremely resistant h…
Ashmita Banik, Tapan Majumdar
… increasing number of immuno-compromised patients, but it’s diagnosis cannot be overlooked in immunocompetent patients. We represented a case of 67 year old non diabetic non hypertensive female who was suffering from fever with chills, cough, exertional dyspnea, loss of weight fo…