tuberculosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. it is a chronic granulomatous disease that can affect any part of the body, including the oral cavity. oral lesions of tuberculosis, though uncommon, are seen in both the primary and secondary stages of the disease. this article presents a case of tuberculosis of the buccal mucosa, manifesting as non-healing, non-painful ulcer....

efficient tuberculosis treatment requires the use of good quality medicines. the present study developed a method of dosage by high performance liquid chromatography (hplc) coupled with the dissolution of a combination of fixed doses of four anti-tuberculous (isoniazid, pyrazinamide, ethambutol hydrochlorate, rifampicine). the elaborated protocol was thereafter used to assess the quality of med...

conclusions tuberculosis is still a diagnostic challenge, especially when the presentation is atypical and extra-pulmonary. case presentation a 68-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with fever. he had splenomegaly, ascites and right-sided psoas abscess. chest x-ray was normal. although the vertebral column was intact, he had asymptomatic sacroiliitis. bony changes of the right sacroilia...

leprosy is an ancient deforming disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, which is still poorly understood and often feared by the general public and even by some in the health care professions fortunately, the outlook for patients has dramatically improved over the last three decades with the introduction of multi-drug treatment and management strategies that have somewhat diminished the stigma ...

study of educational needs in tuberculosis patients and   their family and selfcare in urmia   shainseddin shams [1] , m.s.   abstract:     introdtiction: tuberculosis is a disaster disease, in spite of progresses of technology and medical   sciences. early diagnosis and treatment is the first step of controling and prevention of diseases and patient education and his/her family is important.  ...

Introduction: The Central African Republic is one of the 30 high Tuberculosis burden countries in world, with an incidence 540 cases per 100,000 population and a mortality 91 deaths population. Since 2020, following WHO recommendations, National Reference Laboratory for has been using Xpert&#174 MTB/RIF assay as first-line diagnostic test early detection Drug Resistance Tuberculosis. goal this ...

Treatment of tuberculosis with main anti-tuberculosis drugs (OAT) includes isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RIF), ethambutanol (EMB), streptomycin (SM), and pyrazinamide (PZA). Although most Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs are acceptable in therapy, they have potential side effects, including the effects hematological reactions such as anemia. This study's purpose was to compare HB levels before after intens...

Tuberculosis is still a public health problem today and can have acute chronic manifestations challenging clinics for various medical specialties. Because it’s disease of multisystem potential, it often overlooked when outside the respiratory clinical context. As result, case report was carried out at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre, in 2020, patient with voluminous gastrointestinal bleeding ...

The increase in drug-resistant tuberculosis and the global pandemic of human immunodeficiency virus infection-related tuberculosis threaten global tuberculosis control. There are needs for improved therapy in all aspects of tuberculosis treatment: treatment of latent infection, active drug-susceptible disease, and particularly, drug-resistant disease. Fortunately, at this time of great need, th...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis, in particular Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR-TB) is an increasing global concern and a major burden for some developing countries, especially the BRICS. It is assumed that every year roughly 350 000 new MDR-TB cases occur in the world, on average in 20.5% of TB patients that have been previously treated but also in 3.5% of persons that have never been on TB treatment bef...