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Rafael Laniado-Laborı́n
Although the underlying general principles of management of tuberculosis are the same for all cases, there are certain special situations in which the treatment regimen must be modified. Uremia and post-renal transplant are both risk factors for tuberculosis due to the underlying…
Jiaxing Tan, Yan Yin, Guang Hua, Lili Wang
…agnostic value of T-cell enzyme linked immunospot assay for tuberculosis infection during the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The study objects were 200 cases of tuberculosis patients in the outpatient department or inpatient department of our…
Asheley Henrique Barbosa Pereira, Claudia A.A. Lopes, Thalita A. Pissinatti, A. Pinto, Daniel R. Oliveira, et al.
…ct Herein we present the pathological findings of different tuberculosis stages in Old and New World monkeys kept under human care in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and naturally infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex. Fifteen nonhuman primates from five different colonies were…
Pereira AHB, Lopes CAA, Pissinatti TA, Pinto ACA, Oliveira DRA, et al.
… pathology of monkeys naturally infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from five different colonies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On the basis of gross and histopathological findings, the lesions were classified into chronic-active, extrapulmonary, early-activation or late…
Anuradha Kalotra, Dinesh Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Arvind Kumar Yadav, Kiran Lachala, et al.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) patients suffer enormously due to huge cost on diagnosis and treatment. This study aims to assess the total expenditure and its predictors among patients of TB. Methodology: A longitudinal study was conducted among TB Patients registered in first qua…
Scherer J, Mukasa SL, Wolmarans K, Guler R, Kotze T, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, with approximately 10 million cases annually. Focus has been on pulmonary TB, while extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) has received little attention. Diagnosis of EPTB remains challenging due to the invasive proc…
Sun JM, Wang C, Jin DQ, Deng F
Congenital tuberculosis (TB) is rare and the prognosis is poor if not detected early. The diagnosis is often delayed owing to non-specific clinical presentation, misdiagnosis and undiagnosed maternal TB during pregnancy. A 12-day-old girl presented with a 5-day history of fever, …
A.R. Aroyan, А. В. Мордык
Introduction . Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is more difficult to diagnose than respiratory tuberculosis. However, late detection leads to disabling consequences. Children from 4 to 11 years old are at risk for tuberculosis due to increased communication skills. It seems relevant t…
Prabha Desikan, Aseem Rangnekar, Nikita Panwalkar, Ram Prakash Punde, Sridhar Anand
…etection and treatment of drug resistance in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a major challenge worldwide. Drug resistance in EPTB has not been studied extensively. However, patients with drug-resistant EPTB have been reported to have poor outcomes[1]. Rifampicin and isoniaz…
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. ¹ Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases accounted for 16% of the 7.5 million cases of TB worldw…
Van Hoving DJ, Griesel R, Meintjes G, Takwoingi Y, Maartens G, et al.
Background Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis in people living with HIV is difficult. HIV-positive individuals have higher rates of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and the diagnosis of tuberculosis is often limited to imaging results. Ultrasound is such an imaging test that is widely…
Menzies NA, Quaife M, Allwood BW, Byrne AL, Coussens AK, et al.
Background Many individuals who survive tuberculosis disease face ongoing disability and elevated mortality risks. However, the impact of post-tuberculosis sequelae is generally omitted from policy analyses and disease burden estimates. We therefore estimated the global burden of…
K Monisha, Siddlingappa Hugara, K M Nanditha
**BACKGROUND:** National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme focuses more on open (pulmonary) cases of tuberculosis. In addition to pulmonary tuberculosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases also contribute to the tuberculosis burden and spread of infection among household contacts…
Hu SS, Wei QC, Wu Y, Li XN, Liu FJ, et al.
Background Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a relatively rare form of tuberculosis infection, accounting for approximately 15% of all tuberculosis infections. Lymph nodes are the most commonly affected sites, while involvement of the parotid gland is extremely rare. Case prese…
Shasha Hu, Qingzhu Wei, Yu Wu, Xin-Nian Li, Fujin Liu, et al.
BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a relatively rare form of tuberculosis infection, accounting for approximately 15% of all tuberculosis infections. Lymph nodes are the most commonly affected sites, while involvement of the parotid gland is extremely rare. CASE PRES…
JAYA JAIN, Deepti Shrivastava
…CTION •There exists a lot of diagnostic dilemma for genital tuberculosis in the available literature No single test is found confirmatory except for wet culture and histopathological positivity which may become paucibacillary extrapulmonary sites and time consuming too. •Polymera…
Darja Sadovska
Despite significant advancements in tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics, treatment, and prevention, the disease remains a major global public health challenge, with only limited reductions in incidence rates observed. In recent years, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tube…
Darja Sadovska
Despite significant advancements in tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics, treatment, and prevention, the disease remains a major global public health challenge, with only limited reductions in incidence rates observed. In recent years, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tube…
Muh. Arfah Syam, Margaretha Solang, Widy Susanti Abdulkadir
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis does not only occur in the lungs, which is called pulmonary tuberculosis but can occur outside the lung organs, which is called extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Reinfection from Pulmonary tuberc…
Khushpreet Kaur, Sumedha Sharma, Sudhanshu Abhishek Sinha, Prabhdeep Kaur, Uttam Chand Saini, et al.
Abstract Bone tuberculosis is widely characterized by irreversible bone destruction caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Mycobacterium has the ability to adapt to various environmental stresses by altering its transcriptome in order to establish infection in the host. Thus, it …
I. D. Duzhiy, Г.П. Олещенко, I.A. Gnatenko, V.O. Oleshchenko, S. O. Golubnychyi
…possibilities of pathogenetic treatment of various forms of tuberculosis, which, accordingly, will increase its effectiveness. Objective — to study the state of the proteolytic system on the example of serum elastase in various forms of tuberculosis.Materials and methods. Under o…
Xu-Wen Fu, Yan Bi, Min Qi, Jing-Liang Liu, Jia-Lu Wei, et al.
…m of this study is to enhance the understanding of prostate tuberculosis by analyzing clinical data and prostate computed tomography (CT) imaging of patients with hematogenous disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis and prostate tuberculosis. **METHODS:** Patients with hematogenous …
Avkan-Oğuz V, Öner-Eyüboğlu F, Turunç T, Ersöz G, Tezer-Tekçe Y, et al.
Objectives Tuberculosis risk in solid-organ transplant recipients is more than the general population, although tuberculosis incidence has been reported to decrease 5% in the last decade in Turkey. In Turkey, solid-organ transplants started in 1975; however, routine pretransplant…
Paudel D, Shrestha SL
Introduction Tuberculosis outside of the lung is extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is not easy in a community setting even in district hospitals. Clinical symptoms and radiological diagnosis are effective for the diagnosis of pulmonary and …
Malleswari Belle, Shridhar Baburao, Rahul Baburao Kamble, Pranav Punasanwala
…ACKGROUND \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 \nst…