BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is one of the great mimickers of medicine, and often masquerades as malignancy. As a result, patients may be referred to oncologists and surgeons for further evaluation and management, delaying the institution of appropriate anti-tuberculous drug therapy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 21 year old man with tuberculous osteomyelitis, who was r...

The most common manifestation of mycobacterial Tuberculosis (MTB) is a reactivation latent infection affecting the lung. Extrapulmonary TB accounts for 12 %. Cases involving gastrointestinal (GI)l tract account 1-3%, with Esophageal accounting 2.8 % GI cases. Our case involves 29-year-old male from Sub- Saharan Africa who had progressive symptoms odynophagia, retrosternal chest pain, and weight...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is a global emergency predominantly affecting developing countries. HIV has been the single most important reason for acquisition of tuberculosis for many patients. Conversely, tuberculosis can result in rapid progression of HIV disease. Ethiopia is a country affected seriously by HIV and tuberculosis. The main aim of this study is assessment of the types of tuberculosis...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is uncommon but not rare. Bone and joint involvement constitute about 10% of extrapulmonary TB cases, with the spine being the most frequently affected site. Spinal TB patients typically present with back pain but other constitutional or pulmonary symptoms may be absent, rendering the diagnosis difficult. This case explores challenges in the diagnosis of spinal ...

Tuberculosis is a high-incidence public health problem in Peru. In our context, seen commonly as pulmonary infection. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis gastric rare, both primary or secondary infection, with just few case reports published about these kinds of presentations. This report presents 44-year-old female patient weight loss, dyspepsia, and abdominal pain. Upper endoscopy reveals antral poly...

OBJECTIVE: to describe abandonment rates according to sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of new tuberculosis cases being treated in Pernambuco State, Brazil. METHODS: this is a descriptive ecological study using data from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases from 2001 to 2014; the abandonment rate was calculated by the Regional Administration on Health (G...

SETTING Eight HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis before and after the start of combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) and investigate associated risk factors. DESIGN Multicohort study. Adults enrolled between January 2006 and September 2008. RESULTS A total of 30,134 patients contributed 25,916 person-years o...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) accounts for a significant proportion of tuberculosis cases worldwide. Nevertheless, the diagnosis is often delayed or even missed due to insidious clinical presentation and poor performance of diagnostic tests. Culture, the classical gold standard for tuberculosis, suffers from increased technical and logistical constraints in EPTB cases. In this review the a...

OBJECTIVE The ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes in peripheral blood could reflect an individual's immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes and clinical status of patients with active tuberculosis. METHODS This was a retrospective review of data collected from the clinical database of The Fift...

cases were reported in 2015, which accounted for 9.6% of the 32,181 new TB cases and 46.6% of the 6,631 extrapulmonary TB cases (Table 1). Tuberculous pleurisy is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and is the main cause of pleural effusion in Korea. In Korea, 3,089 new tuberculous pleurisy Progression of Tuberculous Pleurisy: From a Lymphocyte-Predominant Free-Flowing Effu...