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Dimova A, Fures R, Konjevod J, Hrgovic Z, Malojcic SM, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB), primarily recognized as a pulmonary disease, can manifest in various extrapulmonary forms, with abdominal tuberculosis (ATB) being one of the most common. Abdominal tuberculosis is one of the diseases known as "the great imitator" - it can mimic the …
Alexandria E. Melendez‐Zaidi, Fábio A. Nascimento, Nikita Shukla, Thierry A. G. M. Huisman
A 14-month-old girl presented to the emergency department (ED) with two weeks of fever, vomiting, and new onset focal and generalized seizures and was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) meningitis based on imaging and serum studies, later confirmed by a TB-specific culture of the c…
Kahan Mehta, Naazmin Chandrani, Ishani Shah, Samir Mehta, Mohamed Omar
INTRODUCTION:Tubercular meningitis is a severe form of meningitis caused by tuberculosis bacteria. 1It is a rare condition, but in India, it is a significant public health concern, as the country has a high incidence of tuberculosis. 2 This disease affects the protective layers s…
Aslıhan Şahin, Ahu Kara Aksay, Can Biçmen, Serkan Belkaya, Ahmet Kaya, et al.
To The Editors: Soft tissue tuberculosis (TB) is one of the rare manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). We presented a 2-year-old patient with isolated soft tissue TB, rarely reported in the literature. A 2-year-old girl has been admitted to our hospital with persi…
Liza Claire C. Ole, J.L. Lobo, Genelynne J. Beley
Background: Young children are at increased risk of developing severe forms of tuberculosis (TB) disease. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) contributes significantly to TB-related morbidities. This study aimed to determine patients’ epidemiologic and clinical profile with EPTB a…
Rafia Alnuaim, Nabaa Al-Jawadi, Liqaa Almoosa
Background After data has been sorted, statistical analysis is used to compare it. Statistical analysis was used to compare tuberculosis data from two different and distinct years in order to determine the extent of the development of this disease.
 Aim This study aimed to e…
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…
Z Laklaai, K Channoune, N Zaghba, H Benjelloune, N Yassine
<b>Introduction:</b> Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in the world and in Morocco. Multifocal tuberculosis is defined as involvement of two non-contiguous extrapulmonary sites with or without pulmonary involvement. <b>Methods:</b> We report a retrospective study of 8…
Z.I. Pіskur, L.І. Pylypiv, Olga Shvets, M.І. Sakhelashvili, O.P. Kostyk, et al.
Abstract Pediatric tuberculosis is a health problem of special significance because it is a marker for current transmission of tuberculosis in society. The research aimed at analyzing the peculiarities of detection and course of pediatric extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) taking…
Ahmad al Jbawi, Mohammad Fadel, Fares Kahal, Michel Najjar, Sara Albuaini, et al.
Abstract Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern worldwide and is the 13th leading cause of death, and the second deadliest infectious disease after COVID-19 worldwide 1 . Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases accounted for 15% of the 7.2 million cases o…
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…
Mohammad Alsaleem, Mohammed Almohammed Saleh, Mohammed S Alarbash
…who prove to be positive with tuberculosis. She receive all vaccines since birth. Radiological investigation with Acid Fast Bacilli and TB PCR show tuberculosis septic hip. She underwent Arthrotomy and we start Anti TB medication. Conclusion: This case shows the importance of con…
Dhara Gosai, Jigar B. Gosai, Omprakash Shital Shukla
Background: Tuberculosis is the world's second leading cause of death from an infectious disease, being second only to AIDS. There is a lack of good data on the prevalence of all types of tuberculosis among children in India; most surveys have focused on pulmonary tuberculosis. T…
Negin Shaterian
One of the important issues is infertility that is increasing today and the causes are various. Bacterium Tuberculosis is viable in pulmonary and extrapulmonary [1]. Female genital tuberculosis is an extrapulmonary type that makes up 9% of the cases [1]. Tuberculosis infection of…
Vasudha Garg, Malvika Shastri, Annu Nanda
A 49-year-old female presented to the surgery outpatient department (OPD) complaining of swelling on right cheek for 10 years. It was gradually increasing in size causing progressive cosmetic disfigurement. She had no history of fever/weight loss/cough, piercing/tattooing, trauma…
Morten Rühwald, Sergio Carmona, Madhukar Pai
The ongoing COVID-19 mass testing and vaccination campaigns are the result of unprecedented financial investments, rapid research and development, collaborative science, and innovation in delivery systems. It would be a shame to not leverage these systems for other priorities in …
Geng Ju Tuang, Athierah Muhammad, Farah Dayana Zahedi
The articles published in August 2020 entitled ‘tuberculosis (TB) or not TB?’ and ‘sarcoidosis with multiorgan involvement’ under the ‘image’ section have particularly caught our attention. The unfortunate occurrence of misdiagnosis of patients with TB infection, which has transp…
Rafael Laniado-Laborín
Traditionally little attention has been paid to pediatric tuberculosis by clinicians, researchers, decision-makers, and even by national tuberculosis programs. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report for the year 2018, 10 million people developed TB in 2017…
Akansha Sinha, Raju Iyengar, P. Chandrasekhar
<p class="Default">Primary tuberculous osteomyelitis accounts for less than 10% of extra pulmonary tuberculosis in childhood.In about 50% of the patients, the vertebrae are the sites of skeletal involvement. Solitary bone TB is rare in infancy and has non specific findings …
Şerif Kurtuluş, Remziye Can
Objective: A reduction in tuberculosis (TB) cases is possible through knowledge and control of the risk factors. In this study, the aim was to evaluate the knowledge levels of secondary school students about TB.
 Method: The study is a descriptive study conducted in 2018-201…
Fábio Tenório Silva, Amanda Alves Fecury, Ingrid Lara de Araújo Utzig, Euzébio de Oliveira, Carla Viana Dendasck, et al.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Asia and Africa are the continents with the largest number of confirmed cases on the planet. The objective of this study was to show the num…
Vinod Jangid, Ramesh Kumar Kushwah, Suresh Kumar Jain, Prafful Mehta
Introduction: Cutaneous tuberculosis is not a uncommon type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in India. Our aim was to study the various clinico morphological pattern and epidemiology of cutaneous tuberculosis, and to correlate them with mantoux reactivity and human immunodeficiency…
SivaramanBala Murugan
Tuberculosis (TB) is an enigmatic disease which can manifest as a pathology affecting any structure of the eye. The diagnosis of TB becomes simple if the diagnostic results are positive and its treatment response is collaborated with the clinical findings. However, the clinical e…
Malleswari Belle, Shridhar Baburao, Rahul Baburao Kamble, Pranav Punasanwala
BACKGROUND \nTo study the clinical profile of paediatric tuberculosis with reference to adenosine deaminase level in comparison with DNA PCR \nfor diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is still a leading cause of death worldwide. After a century of \ns…
Satish Kumar, TruptiG Lende, Pranita Waghmare, AbhaykumarW Ambilkar
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is well-known public health problem with one-fifth of global burden in India. Even though there are diagnostic and prognostic markers for TB, there is further need to study and understand the role of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in different forms of TB…