نتایج جستجو برای: extrapulmonary tuberculosis

تعداد نتایج: 100462  

2013
Avneet Kaur Ruhi Bunger

Tuberculosis a contagious and airborne disease affecting mostly young adults in their most productive years. The vast majority of tuberculosis deaths are in the developing world, so called a disease of poverty (1). Tuberculosis can involve any organ system in the body. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis comprises 10-50% of all tuberculosis in HIV negative patients and about 35-80% in HIV infected pati...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2009
Heather M Peto Robert H Pratt Theresa A Harrington Philip A LoBue Lori R Armstrong

BACKGROUND Almost one-fifth of United States tuberculosis cases are extrapulmonary; unexplained slower annual case count decreases have occurred in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), compared with annual case count decreases in pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases. We describe the epidemiology of EPTB by means of US national tuberculosis surveillance data. METHODS US tuberculosis cases reporte...

Journal: :Journal of clinical microbiology 2011
Can Bicmen Ayriz T Gunduz Meral Coskun Gunes Senol A Kadri Cirak Ayse Ozsoz

Although the sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid amplification assays are high with smear-positive samples, the sensitivity with smear-negative and extrapulmonary samples for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in suspicious tuberculosis cases still remains to be investigated. This study evaluates the performance of the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct (GTMD) test for rapid molecular detection an...

2013
Rebuma Firdessa Stefan Berg Elena Hailu Esther Schelling Balako Gumi Girume Erenso Endalamaw Gadisa Teklu Kiros Meseret Habtamu Jemal Hussein Jakob Zinsstag Brian D. Robertson Gobena Ameni Amanda J. Lohan Brendan Loftus Iñaki Comas Sebastien Gagneux Rea Tschopp Lawrence Yamuah Glyn Hewinson Stephen V. Gordon Douglas B. Young Abraham Aseffa

Molecular typing of 964 specimens from patients in Ethiopia with lymph node or pulmonary tuberculosis showed a similar distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains between the 2 disease manifestations and a minimal role for M. bovis. We report a novel phylogenetic lineage of M. tuberculosis strongly associated with the Horn of Africa.

2013
Aisha A. Alghamdi Faiza S. Awan Iqbal H. Maniyar Naif A. Alghamdi

Though commonly encountered, extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) can sometimes present with variable clinical picture intricating the diagnosis (Avasthi et al., 2010). The nonspecific symptoms include pyrexia of unknown origin, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, meningitis, and, rarely, variety of hematological abnormalities, namely, anemia, pancytopenia, and leukemoid reaction (Avasthi et al., ...

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