the aim of this study was to investigate the histopathology of avian tuberculosis in naturally infected domestic pigeons (columba livia var. domestica) with mycobacterium aviumsubsp.avium. avian tuberculosis is one of the most important diseases that affect all species of birds, and is most often caused by mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium genavense. eighty out of more than 600 pigeons were...

The musculoskeletal extrapulmonary tuberculosis is uncommon, the upper extremity tuberculosis is not common and the mycobacterial involvement of skin of hands and synovial sheath of tendons is rare. This prospective observational study was undertaken between August  2014 and December 2015 in a tertiary referral hospital. Patients attending with suspected primary tuberculosis of soft tissue...

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive cholestatic liver disease characterised serologically by cholestasis and the presence of high-titre antimitochondrial antibodies, and histologically by chronic nonsuppurative cholangitis and granulomata. As PBC is a granulomatous disease and Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the most frequent cause of granulomata, a causal relation between tuberculos...

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mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main cause of tuberculosis (tb), has still remained a global health crisis especially in developing countries. tuberculosis treatment is a laborious and lengthy process with high risk of non compliance, cytotoxicity adverse events and drug resistance in patient. recently, there has been an alarming rise of drug resistant in tb. in this regard, it is an unmet need...

This study was aimed to rapidly identify and differentiate two main pathogens of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: Mycobacterium tuberculosis subsp. tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis by a modified loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay. The reaction results could be evaluated by naked eye with two optimized closed tube detection methods as follows: ...

The cross-immunity between tuberculosis and leprosy is unknown. The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the occurrence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. leprae infection in Marshallese adult volunteers in Springdale, Arkansas, U.S.A., a population that experiences high rates of leprosy and tuberculosis. We used immunodiagnostic testing for tuberculosis and leprosy infection and found sig...

Background: Cutaneous tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease affecting the skin caused by Mycobacterium (M. tuberculosis). It constitutes 1–1.5% of extrapulmonary TB, with Indonesia being third-highest TB burden country worldwide. difficult to diagnose due its varied presentations. This study aimed describe clinicodemographic and laboratory characteristics cutaneous in tertiary refer...

In a search for new skin test reagents specific for tuberculosis, we found that the antigen encoded by gene Rv3874 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis elicited delayed-type hypersensitivity in M. tuberculosis-infected guinea pigs but not in control animals immunized with Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) or Mycobacterium avium. The antigen, which was named MTSA-10 (for M. tuberculosi...