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BackgroundTuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases and continues to be hindered by poor public awareness, stigma, and misinformation, all of which can contribute to delayed diagnosis, ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major opportunistic infection after renal transplantation. The incidence of TB in the general population is high in developing countries including our country. The risk of TB in renal transplant re...

Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a critical global public health issue, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions where population density and migration facilitate transmission. While whole-genome sequencin...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are major global health concerns that frequently coexist, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This dual burden negatively affects disease progression...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease and one of the major causes of mortality worldwide, especially in children under the age of 15 years. Abdominal TB includes TB of bowel, peritoneum, lymph nodes, or other soli...

Isolated pancreatic tuberculosis is an extremely rare diagnosis and is often confused with pancreatic malignancy. A 56-yearold male dialysis patient presented with fever, loss of weight abdominal pain, and lack of appeti...

Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine design relies on the selection of optimal antigens. However, evidence on candidate antigens is scattered across the literature and rarely linked to critical vaccine parameters, such as immune re...

Peritonitis is the most common and serious complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Nevertheless, tuberculosis peritonitis in uremic patients undergoing CAPD therapy occurs infrequently. A case o...

ObjectiveTo systematically evaluate the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and compare the risk of TB between ICI-treated and non-ICI-treated cancer patient...

Mixed infection refers to the presence of multiple Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains within one host, while heteroresistance denotes the coexistence of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant strains or genotypes. Mixed inf...

HIV coinfection and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) pose a major public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where high HIV prevalence promotes tuberculosis progression and complicates its management. In peo...

IntroductionAsymptomatic individuals with negative Interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) and tuberculin skin test (TST) results are often labeled as tuberculosis-unexposed individuals. We hypothesize that flow cytometric (F...

Tuberculosis is a global public health challenge, disproportionately affecting adolescents in low-and middle-income countries. Malnutrition worsens immune function, delays recovery and increases the risk of treatment fai...

In Argentina, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) outbreaks emerged among hospitalized patients with AIDS in the early 1990s and thereafter disseminated to the immunocompetent community. Epidemiological, bacteriolo...

Mendeteksi atau mendiagnosa penyakit adalah salah satu cara untuk mengobati seseorang, salah satunya adalah diagnosa penyakit Tuberculosis. Dari sekian banyak diagnosa penyakit, tuberculosis merupakan diagnosa yang cukup...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health challenge, with Thailand identified as a high-burden country for TB and TB-HIV infections by WHO in 2021–2025. While the standard TB treatment regimen—incl...

A prevalência da tuberculose em bovinos abatidos em Minas Gerais, de 1993 a 1997, em 10 matadouros sujeitos à Inspeção Federal, foi de 0,7‰. Os bovinos procederam principalmente deste Estado (74%) e de Goiás (25%)...

Objectives: To perform a multicentre study evaluating the performance of the direct nitrate reductase assay (NRA) for the detection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in sputum...

Abstract Background Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge in Somalia, where a fragile health system and reliance on private providers complicate care. Although Public-Private Partnerships are globally reco...

Background: Tuberculosis remains one of the primary infectious diseases in Bangladesh that affects both adults and children. Poor diagnostic criteria and insufficient reporting, especially of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB)...

Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major public health challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), worsened by high HIV prevalence and limited healthcare infrastructure. Bedaquiline, a cornerstone DR-TB trea...

We developed a new multiplexed-PCR assay to accurately classify Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) isolates at the sublineage level by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This method relies on 7 SNPs located in...

Objective. To determine nutritional risk factors in a populationof patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PT). Materialand methods. During 1997, one-hundred andeighty-five patients with PT were chosen at random fromtwo he...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem. Emerging evidence suggests that Vitamin D plays a significant immunomodulatory role in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Vitamin D defic...