India: A recent study conducted in a high-endemic region highlights the role of chest X-rays (CXR) in identifying ...

The new treatment regimen, recommended for patients aged three months to 16 years with non-severe drug-susceptible TB, is ...

The diagnosis of TBM and miliary TB was finally confirmed by positive CSF and sputum culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The patient had a good response to standard antituberculous therapy ...

Disseminated tuberculosis: Active TB disease that affects three or more sites, or positive blood culture(s) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. See also miliary TB. Airborne particles resulting from a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs but can spread to other parts of the body, including the skin. Once it reaches the skin, TB can cause a variety of lesions ...

Background: Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test ...

While previous reports describing the outbreak as “the largest in U.S. history” were quickly debunked, it is one of the bigger TB outbreaks within a one-year period over the past several ...

Inclusion criteria encompassed symptoms and signs of tuberculosis, pulmonary lesions indicative of miliary tuberculosis, and imaging evidence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, including TB meningitis, ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a potentially fatal disease, had been almost wiped out in Britain by the 1970s. But there has been a dramatic rise in cases recently, especially in and around London ...