The only study providing prevalence data for all forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis reported a prevalence of 43.5% among tuberculosis cases in Larach Province. Treatment success rates ranged from 64 ...

Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics remain plagued by delays, inaccuracies, and resource limitations. These methods ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that are not killed by at least one effective antibacterial medicine (for example, isoniazid or rifampicin) used to treat tuberculosis (called drug ...

Introduction Undernutrition is a major risk factor for tuberculosis (TB), which is estimated to be responsible for 1.9 million TB cases per year globally. The effectiveness of micronutrient ...

Extrapulmonary TB in the TB/HIV co-infection group primarily involved abdominal and pericardial sites, whereas the TB-alone infection group had more cases of lymphadenitis and pleural TB. The length ...

Article citations More>> Sharma, S.K. and Mohan, A. (2004) Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis. Indian Journal of Medical Research, 120, 316-353. has been cited by the following article: TITLE: ...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is caused by secondary hematogenous spread of the primary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb.). Bacteriological evidence using traditional methods is ...