Tuberculosis remains a major health issue worldwide, with a growing incidence in the UK; 8500 new cases were reported in 2006. However, musculoskeletal involvement is still infrequently reported in the medical literature, especially in the developed world. The lack of familiarity with tuberculosis in general, as well as specific signs and symptoms of extrapulmonary involvement may be contributo...

Atypical mycobacteria are increasingly afflicting pulmonary and extra pulmonary systems. Disease caused by these organisms are less common compared with tuberculosis caused by human strain of mycobacteria, but there has been a significant increase in pulmonary and extra pulmonary infections due to atypical mycobacteria especially in retroviral disease in the last two decades. 75 HIV positive pa...

Large blood-stained pleural effusions, especially in young patients, are unusual and may be caused by metastatic disease in the chest, a large pulmonary infarction, and, rarely, pulmonary tuberculosis. Meigs' syndrome is an uncommon cause of pleural effusion associated with ascites and a benign ovarian tumour, most often a fibroma. The fluid is usually clear but occasionally blood-stained. The ...

In veterinary medicine the increasing attentions have been paid to the potential role of atypical mycobacteria as opportunist pathogens in animal health as a result of the successful contl'ol of bovine tuberculosis, as reviewed by Kazdall. This tendency will be partially explained from the fact that one is tempted to interpret the occuHence of the so-called no visible lesion reactors, a very pe...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous pathological fractures of the cervical spine due to tuberculosis are rare. But with escalating incidences of atypical presentations of tubercular disease, clinicians should exercise a high index of suspicion for early diagnosis of such cases. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 50-year-old Hindu man from northern India, who complained of pain and stiffness in his...

BACKGROUND Computer-aided detection to identify and diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis is being explored. While both cavitation on chest radiograph and smear-positivity on microscopy are independent risk factors for the infectiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis it is unknown which radiographic pattern, were it detectable, would provide the greatest public health benefit; i.e. reduced transmission. ...

Tuberculosis continues to constitute the principal mycobacterial pulmonary disease. Control measures are known and their effectiveness limited mainly by social and economic factors. Other mycobacterial diseases are not so readily controlled owing to incomplete knowledge of epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment. The Runyon classification given in table I developed as cultural character­ istic...

positive and 95%when there is a negative culture. In theUSA, 90% of adult tuberculosis cases were confirmed by culture. In contrast, only 28% of the children with tuberculosis had positive cultures, and here PCR appears to be more reliable [8]. We present the first case of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a child with severe s-JIA treated with infliximab who also developed a fatal (opportunistic)...