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La tuberculosis congénita es una enfermedad rara, de diagnóstico correcto difícil con base tan sólo en las manifestaciones clínicas y sin tener una historia materna disponible. Se presenta el caso de una autopsia de...

İn this study, renal transplant recipients who were complicated with tuberculosis, were analyzed with special reference to prevalence, outcome, therapy and drug toxicity. Among 520 patients, 22 (4.2%) were diagnosed to ...

Abstract Introduction Tuberculosis infection (TBI) is a great barrier to tuberculosis control. Previous large-scale study had revealed that the TBI rate was between 13% and 20% for the general population in China. Howeve...

Introducción: La tuberculosis ótica es una manifestación extrapulmonar excepcional; su presentación concomitante con afectación intestinal y perianal en pacientes inmunocompetentes es extraordinariamente infrecuente...

Patients receiving anti-TNF-α therapy are at increased risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). While immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is classically associated with HIV-infected individuals initiating an...

Rationale: Stigma has a profound effect on the well-being and treatment outcomes of people with tuberculosis (PWTB). Despite its negative effects, TB-related stigma remains underexplored in high-burden TB settings such a...

En el presente trabajo se desarrolló un método para determinar la susceptibilidad de Mycobacterium tuberculosis a drogas antituberculosas determinando niveles de ácidos micólicos por cromatografía de líquidos de al...

Materias / palabras clave: Enfermedades infecciosas; Epidemiología; Tuberculosis; Vigilancia; Parasitic diseases; Epidemiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Public health surveillance; Tuberculosis pulmonar

Tuberculosis is still a major health problem especially among immunocompromised hosts. Another problem is making diagnosis due to the unexpected presentation and localization of disease. Extrapulmonary disease may clinic...

While treatment with intravenous iron is essential for iron deficiency in hemodialysis patients, there is also evidence that links iron and iron overload with an increased risk of infection. In this article, we present a...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is rarely seen in childhood. We present all- year-old girl diagnosed (by clinical and laboratory criteria) as suffering from abdominal and renal tuberculosis after being evaluated for fever, g...

Here, a fifty nine year old woman with extrapulmonary tuberculosis and pyogenic infection involving cervical spine is presented. The patient had chronic renal failure and was on maintenance hemodialysis for two years. Sh...

Abstract Background A major constraint to tuberculosis control is low case finding with under-reporting to national authorities. Evidence shows that Patent Medicine Dealers are first port of call for most people with sym...

Background: Village doctors played a crucial role in tuberculosis (TB) control in China. While scant attention has been paid to village doctors’ knowledge of TB preventive treatment (TPT), even less is known about thei...

Abstract Background Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) remains a major challenge for TB control in Malawi, particularly in densely populated districts such as Blantyre. Most rifampicin resistance is caused by muta...

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze managers’ discourses regarding aspects that hinder the quality of records related to tuberculosis care in Primary Health Care. Method: A qualitative study conducted in a municipality in...

Abstract Background Managing the simultaneous treatment of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) increases the risk of adverse reactions, drug interactions, and challenges to treatment adherence. To address these complexities, ...

Abstract Objective To investigate whether serum lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) and chitinase-3-like protein 1 (YKL-40) levels are associated with drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in children with pulmonary tubercu...

Abstract Background Studies have shown that autophagy was closely involved in host defense against mycobacteria, and genetic variations in autophagy genes were related to susceptibility to multiple diseases. We conducted...

Background: The relationship between vitamin D receptor gene variations and other risk factors in pulmonary tuberculosis remains unclear, largely due to the complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors. The pur...

Pesquisa avaliativa, tipo estudo de caso, do contexto e grau de implantação do Programa de Controle da Tuberculose (PCT) no município de Coari, Amazonas, 2001-2008. As técnicas de pesquisa conjugaram abordagens quant...

IntroductionThe integration of tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment (TPT) into HIV services through electronic health records (EHR) can improve outcomes by enhancing care coordination, reducing redundancies, and suppor...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB), has killed nearly one billion people in the last two centuries. Nowadays, TB remains a major global health problem, ranking among the thirteen l...

In this study, clinical features in 24 patients diagnosed as urinary tuberculosis in our nephrology and urology clinics between 1993 and 2000 years were investigated retrospectively. Fourteen patients (52 %) were male ...