Evaluation of: Tortoli E, Russo C, Piersimoni C et al. Clinical validation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Eur. Respir. J. doi:10. ...

The study found 32% (924 patients) with kidney failure had extrapulmonary tuberculosis alone, and nearly 40% died. Of patients who died, 286 were diagnosed with tuberculosis posthumously and 792 ...

Extrapulmonary TB disease, which affects organs in addition to or instead of the lungs, may cause other symptoms including back pain, blood in urine, headache or confusion. Persons with latent TB ...

One adult who received a clinical diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB disease declined treatment despite extensive measures on the part of public health and clinicians. Local public health staff ...

DelveInsight's tuberculosis pipeline report depicts a robust space with 30+ active players working to develop 35+ pipeline therapies for tuberculosis treatment. Key tuberculosis companies such as ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ...

Despite global efforts, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children is rising at an alarming rate, with younger children at the highest risk of mortality—urgent action is needed to reverse the ...

Despite decades of efforts, tuberculosis remains a global health crisis, claiming over 1.3 million lives annually. In a comprehensive review published in Molecular Biomedicine, an international ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

Non-Hispanic Black race, diabetes, HIV infection, and severe kidney disease are all risk factors associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) among United States veterans with active TB.

Moreover, having to buy drugs from outside leads to catastrophic health expenses.” Extrapulmonary TB (EP-TB) affects any organ of the body — lymph nodes, the kidneys, the brain, the spinal ...