Adrenal Function in Patients Receiving Rifampin-Based Anti-Tuberculosis Regimens: A Cross-Sectional Study in Iran

Tuberculosis remains as an important socioeconomical and medical problem throughout the world and especially in Iran. Early and timely diagnosis of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis is vital to initiate prompt treatment. Current diagnostic methods are either slow or lack enough sensitivity or specificity. Several mycobacterial antigens are involved in the complex interaction with t...

conclusions a high index of suspicion is required for the early diagnosis and prompt treatment of patients with osseous tuberculosis. given the high prevalence of tuberculosis in developing countries, tuberculosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of multifocal lytic lesions and vertebra plana, especially in children. introduction multifocal skeletal tuberculosis is a rare cond...

Introduction: Aloe vera has anti-bacterial ability against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; however, study, especially in multidrug resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, not been evaluated yet. This study aims to determine the potential as an antituberculosis drug-resistant strains tuberculosis. Method: Stages research include production ethanol extract vera, then testing phy...

BACKGROUND Antiretroviral therapy (ART) decreases mortality risk in HIV-infected tuberculosis patients, but the effect of the duration of anti-tuberculosis therapy and timing of anti-tuberculosis therapy initiation in relation to ART initiation on mortality, is unclear. METHODS We conducted a retrospective observational multi-center cohort study among HIV-infected persons concomitantly treate...

primary tuberculosis of the breast is a rare disease. it usually occurs in female of reproductive age. any form of tuberculosis mastitis may present with feature of malignancy. diagnosis is mainly based on identification of tubercle bacilli. we report a 42-year-old woman with primary tuberculosis abscess of the breast, who underwent surgical resection. fine needle biopsy failed to achieve speci...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a chronic, highly contagious disease caused by the Bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and spreads from person to through air. affects lungs majorly but also other parts of body, such as brain, intestine, spine kidney. The main cause for patient’s non-adherence anti-tuberculosis therapy ADRs varying degrees severity hepatotoxicity etc. Aim: This study aimed provide...

results results of the current study showed that the minimum inhibitory concentration value of cinnamaldehyde against m. tuberculosis was 200 µg/ml. moreover, rt-pcr data showed that a total of 25 genes were regulated by the cinnamaldehyde. of these, 12 genes were up-regulated, and 13 genes were down-regulated. conclusions cinnamaldehyde is a pattern to expand the new anti-tb drugs, because the...

This study was planned to determine HIV seroprevalence among pulmonary tuberculosis patients, to characterize the isolated mycobacteria into typical and atypical strains and to evaluate the drug resistant pattern of mycobacterial isolates. The study aims to correlate multidrug resistance (MDR) and HIV seropositivity status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. During the year 1994-1997, 750 pulmo...