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Wani SR, Wattal C, Raveendran R
Introduction Non-tuberculous mycobacteria, although identified as pathogenic to humans long time ago, are emerging as the new threat in the past two decades. Even in tuberculosis endemic country such as India, they are being isolated from the clinical specimens more often than pr…
Arival Cardoso de Brito, Clivia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Deborah Aben-Athar Unger, Maraya de Jesus Semblano Bittencourt
Abstract Tuberculosis is certainly one of the diseases considered to be ancient on planet Earth. The etiological agent of tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This terrible bacterial infection still results in severe socioeconomic consequences to date, and its complete era…
Frouke A Procee, Jizzo R Bosdriesz, Frank G J Cobelens, Maria Prins, Sabine M Hermans, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in low-incidence settings like the Netherlands. Despite declining overall tuberculosis (TB) incidence, the proportion of EPTB has risen, especially among migrant populations…
Niu T, He F, Yang J, Ma C, Xu J, et al.
Background Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) complicated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) infection can aggravate the disease, but there have been few reports. Methods Retrospective analysis was used to collect the clinical data of PTB patients with pathogen positive in a teach…
Ben Ayed H, Koubaa M, Gargouri L, Ben Jemaa M, Trigui M, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem worldwide. Characterizing its trends over time is a useful tool for decision-makers to assess the efficiency of TB control programs. We aimed to give an update on the current chronological trends of TB in Southern Tunisia fr…
O'Son L, Hulland E, Cookson ST, Castro KG, Yaacoub H
SETTING: Lebanon is a relatively low TB-burden country, but has a high proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). Concern has been expressed that Syrian-born refugees could add to the TB burden and rates of EPTB: since 2011, >1 000 000 Syrian refugees have entered Lebanon.…
Manjiang Cao, Shuya Jiao, Quan Zhang, Bo Zhu, Shiyuan Shi
**BACKGROUND:** The burden of spinal tuberculosis (STB) in China remains substantial, with the country ranking third in the number of tuberculosis cases globally in 2022, among the 30 countries with a high tuberculosis burden. In East China, few large-scale studies have been cond…
Xian-Zhen Tang, Yan Ma, Yao Ma, Qing Chen, Li-Ping Zou, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are infectious diseases that pose serious threats to human health. TB and HIV can interact to promote the progression of diseases. This study aims to provide basic evidence for the formulation of d…
Mohammed Alsaeed, Khalid Alanazi, Ali Alhamdan, Mohammed Faqihi, Alaa Alibrahim, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** , an emerging nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), closely resembles(TB) clinically, often complicating its diagnosis and management. **METHODS:** We retrospectively analyzed 8 new cases ofinfection diagnosed at Prince Sultan Military Medical City from 2019 to 202…
Muneer A, Macrae B, Krishnamoorthy S, Zumla A
Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death from infectious disease worldwide. A substantial proportion of patients presenting with extrapulmonary TB have urogenital TB (UG-TB), which can easily be overlooked owing to non-specific symptoms, chronic and cryptic protean cli…
Hilina Mollalign, Shewki Moga, Dawit Chala, Muluwok Getahun, Habteyes Hailu Tola, et al.
**OBJECTIVES:** To determine the magnitude and factors associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and examine differences in clinicodemographic features compared to presumptive EPTB. **METHODS:** A cross-sectional study was conducted between August 2022 and October 2023 …
Ali Mert, Okan Derin, Esra Zerdali, Abdurrahman Kaya, Özlem Gül, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common opportunistic infections in people living with HIV (PLHIV). Mycobacterium tuberculosis may cause more TB in all stages of HIV infection than in the general population, with the incidence of TB and the spread of pulmonary…
Sefer Aslan, Hakan Sezgin Sayıner
Aim: It was aimed to examine the patients diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in terms of diagnostic methods and demographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: The files of patients with EPTB who were followed up in the infectious disease’s outpatient clinic be…
Zhanqiu Mao, Huilie Zheng, Zhenqiong Liu, Zanhua Li, Qilong Zhang
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) poses a critical public health challenge in Jiangxi Province, China, where regional resistance patterns remain understudied. This retrospective study analyzed 9,041 suspected TB patients (2022-2023), identifying 3,104() casesPCR-reverse blot hy…
Leong Tung Ong
Recent population-based studies conducted in Asia have revealed a notable increase in the overall incidence of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection, coinciding with a decline in tuberculosis (TB) cases. The incidence of NTM infection has exceeded that of TB in Japan, with …
Adjemian J, Daniel-Wayman S, Ricotta E, Prevots DR
Annual prevalence estimates for pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (PNTM) disease in the contiguous United States range from 1.4 to 13.9 per 100,000 persons, while one study found an annual prevalence of up to 44 per 100,000 persons in Hawaii. PNTM prevalence varies by region…
Zhao Y, Lafta R, Hagopian A, Flaxman AD
Background The 2003 invasion of Iraq significantly undermined population health. However, there is a lack of understanding of how it undermined communicable disease control. This study was performed to assess the incidence trends of 32 communicable diseases in post-conflict Iraq.…
Selmane S, L'Hadj M
Background This study aimed at highlighting some demographic and clinical features of tuberculosis (TB) at Leon Bernard TB unit, Algeria. Methods This was a retrospective and descriptive study based on TB data extracted from TB patient records during 2009-2019 at Leon Bernard TB …
Franco-Herrera D, González-Ocampo D, Restrepo-Montoya V, Gómez-Guevara JE, Alvear-Villacorte N, et al.
Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis includes three clinical entities: tuberculous meningitis, intracranial tuberculoma, and spinal tuberculous arachnoiditis. All three categories are encountered frequently in regions of the world where the incidence of TB is high. Meningeal…
Larsen ES, Nordholm AC, Lillebaek T, Holden IK, Johansen IS
Objective To describe incidence and clinical characteristics of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infections after BCG bladder instillation amongst patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer in Denmark. Patients and methods We conducted a nationwide register-based cohort study …
Suresh P, Kumar A, Biswas R, Vijayakumar D, Thulasidharan S, et al.
Nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) are opportunistic pathogens that cause a wide range of illnesses. Here, the species distribution and prevalence of NTM infections in tuberculosis suspects was analyzed. A total of 7,073 specimens from pulmonary and extrapulmonary sites were anal…
Singhal J, Verma RK
Background An ambitious plan was set into motion with the aim of TB elimination from India in 2025. To achieve this, it is high time to give emphasis on other prevalent forms of TB, such as extra pulmonary TB (EPTB). Objectives The study aims to discern the differences in patient…
Worku G, Gumi B, Mohammedbirhan B, Girma M, Sileshi H, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in low-income countries like Ethiopia. However, because of the limited laboratory infrastructure there is a shortage of comprehensive data on the genotypes of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium t…
Sharma SK, Upadhyay V
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitously present in the environment, but NTM diseases occur infrequently. NTM are generally considered to be less virulent than Mycobacterium tuberculosis, however, these organisms can cause diseases in both immunocompromised and immunoc…
Sodero G, Cipolla C, Martino L, Gentili C, Rendeli C, et al.
Purpose The incidence of endocrine sequelae following central nervous system (CNS) infections in pediatric age is not known. We conducted this scoping review to assess the incidence of endocrinological alterations in patients with prior CNS infections in pediatric age. Methods Ou…