Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in South Korea. The Joint Committee for the Development of Korean Guidelines for Tuberculosis published the Korean Guidelines for Tuberculosis in 2011 to provide evidence-based practical recommendations to health care workers caring for patients with TB in South Korea. After reviewing recent national and international scientific data on TB...

conclusions the results revealed a significant relationship between the gg genotype of ctla-4 and the increased risk of tb. results data analysis indicated that the frequencies of aa, ag and gg genotypes were 42%, 38%, and 20% in patients with tb and 43%, 47%, 1% in the control subjects, respectively. the gg genotype of ctla-4 (+49a/g) showed a significantly increased risk of disease (or = 20.4...

Tuberculosis (TB) is, one of the top 10 causes death worldwide and leading cause from a single infectious agent. This Prospective study was conducted at Santosh medical college Ghaziabad 1 April 2018 to 30 September 2019. All diagnosed PTB patients above 12yrs were taken. Patients with EPTB, HIV positive, MDR TB, XDR TB excluded study. At end treatment outcome evaluated. Total 208 as tuberculos...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the major global causes death; Mycobacterium it. Approximately 10% patients with TB may develop extrapulmonary bone tuberculosis, spine being most affected, representing 1 to 2% all cases. Pott disease is a form TB, and recently it has shown significant resurgence in developed nations possibly impacted by migration. often misdiagnosed or sometimes diagnosed duri...

Background: There is growing evidence that diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important risk factor for tuberculosis (TB). A significant number of DM patients have poor glycemic control. This study was carried out to find the impact of poor glycemic control on newly diagnosed smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care hospital.Methods: In a hospita...

Background and Purpose: Several evidences have shown some synergistic effect of diabetes co-morbidity on the tuberculosis (TB) treatment results, while some other studies have not found such associations. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between TB-diabetes co-morbidity and outcomes of TB treatment. Materials and Methods: The research population in this case control study were ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which an important public health problem in Morocco. The conventional approaches employed to fight TB are good nutrition, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination, anti-TB therapy. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends combination treatment of four drugs for two months (isoniazid (INH), rifampicin, pyrazinami...

background in spite of recent advents, and novel improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (tb), definitive diagnosis of pulmonary tb in children is problematic. therefore, measurement of the serum level of adenosine deaminase (ada) was later introduced as a helpful marker for the diagnosis of tb. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness o...