The diagnosis of TBM and miliary TB was finally confirmed by positive CSF and sputum culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The patient had a good response to standard antituberculous therapy ...

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Osteoarticular involvement is one manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We present a 5-year-old ... The patient's chest and pelvis radiographs showed a miliary pattern and right ...

The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine (which is mandatory for Brazilian children under one year since the 1980s) is effective in preventing severe forms of tuberculosis (miliary and meningitis) ...

A more than threefold increase was observed in the proportion of all tuberculosis cases with miliary tuberculosis from 0.7% of all cases (38 cases) to 2.2% (180 cases, p<0.001). This rise was not ...

Eight opportunistic infections occurred over 2 years, four per group (one case of histoplasmosis (AE) and three cases of oral candidiasis (one SAE, two AE) with abatacept; one case of disseminated ...

According to a recent meta-analysis, higher-dose tuberculosis treatment regimens in children, following 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, were associated with significantly higher ...

Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

Apr. 21, 2025 — An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler ...

A second active tuberculosis case has been identified in the Chicago suburbs, this time at Joliet West High School. School officials sent out a general notice to parents Monday that a student had ...

I wanted to write about one person and his personal experience with tuberculosis as a way of humanising the disease. I met Henry at a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone in 2019 and he looked ...

When people hear about tuberculosis, they tend to assume it's long gone. However, as the most deadly infectious disease on the planet, it's still alive and well. Just this week, a case of TB was ...