A 63-year-old German woman presented to her family physician with severe malaise, dyspnea, fever, night sweats and a dry cough. She was treated as an outpatient with empirical doxycyclin 100 mg twice ...

IN 1953 Sutliff, Hughes and Rice 1 reported a series of 21 cases of pleural disease presenting various problems of management and diagnosis. Pleural biopsy in 17 cases showed granulomatous disease of ...

The pathological changes of caseation and tubercle formation in tuberculosis of the pleura have been extensively studied at autopsy, 6,7 but observations of the diseased pleura during life were rare ...

The Pilot Immunology Study provides a framework to assess the regulation and temporal changes in host immune responses during standard short course anti-TB chemotherapy in culture-confirmed pulmonary ...

Tuberculosis claims two million lives each year globally. Early detection and treatment are crucial to prevent spread, outbreaks, and development of resistance. Scientists at the Translational Health ...

A highly sensitive diagnostic test for pulmonary TB and pleural TB has been developed by a multi-institutional team led by Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi from the Department of Biotechnology at AIIMS. The ...

The world marks World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 every year. Most people assume that TB only affects the lungs - but the disease can also attack other organs. The Conversation Africa's Ina ...

What is Extra Pulmonary Tuberculosis? Extra pulmonary tuberculosis is the infection of tissues and organs other than the lungs by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a few related organisms. It is most ...

This case illustrates the potential advantages of measuring local immune responses, using ELISPOT assays, for the rapid diagnosis of active TB in patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapy. These ...