Diffuse Meningeal Tuberculosis
JBNC - JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE NEUROCIRURGIA, 2018 A central nervous system infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT), uncommonly seen in immunocompetent patients, brings a diagnose challenge in the modern medicine. Subdural space involvement of MT may simulate neoplastic or inflammatory diseases, bringing a direct influence in the therapeutics.
Leonardo Giacomini +5 more
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An Unusual Form of Meningeal Tuberculosis [PDF]
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Phenotype of Peripheral NK Cells in Latent, Active, and Meningeal Tuberculosis [PDF]
Journal of Immunological Research, 2021 The mechanisms underlying the immunopathology of tuberculous meningitis (TBM), the most severe clinical form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), are not understood.
José Alberto Choreño-Parra +18 more
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Pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis patterns in children at King Abdul-Aziz university hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A retrospective study [PDF]
Global Journal of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research, 2020 Background: Paediatric Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant health problem worldwide, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting almost 550,000 children infected with TB yearly.
Fida Nadia M +4 more
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Epidemio-clinical aspects and neuro-meningeal tuberculosis prognosis in Batna [PDF]
International Journal of Science and Research ArchiveNeuromeningeal tuberculosis is rare, affecting around 1-2% of all tuberculosis cases and 5% of extra pulmonary tuberculosis cases. Our aim is to describe the epidemio-clinical, prognostic and evolutionary aspects of neuromeningeal tuberculosis. Materials
Nora Righi +4 more
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The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2020 Background: Ceftazidime-avibactam is an effective agent for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) but requires frequent administration because of a short half-life. Due to a longer half-life, ceftriaxone could allow intermittent dosing.
Shashikant Srivastava +8 more
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Cerebro-Meningeal Tuberculosis in HIV-Negative Adults [PDF]
Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, 2018 Background: Tuberculosis remains a public health problem worldwide. Neurological localization is the most severe manifestation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis characterized by a high mortality rate and a high rate of sequelae among survivors; its ...
Wahiba Guenifi +7 more
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Stroke in a Patient with Recurrent Meningeal Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection
EMJ Respiratory, 2021 Recurrent tuberculous meningitis can have a non-specific clinical presentation when it presents as a co-infection with HIV and can resemble other causes of subacute and chronic meningitis, leading to unwanted outcomes; for this reason, timely diagnoses ...
Dilia Fontalvo-Rivera +4 more
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Nested-PCR using MPB64 fragment improves the diagnosis of pleural and meningeal tuberculosis [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2000 Fluids in which Mycobacterium tuberculosis are seldom found, such as pleural and cerebrospinal liquids, are good candidates to be studied using PCR techniques.
Luíz Cláudio Martins +5 more
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IP-10 and MIG Are Compartmentalized at the Site of Disease during Pleural and Meningeal Tuberculosis and Are Decreased after Antituberculosis Treatment [PDF]
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2014 The diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) disease remains a challenge, especially in high-burden settings. Cytokines and chemokines are important in the pathogenesis of TB. Here we investigate the usefulness of circulating and compartmentalized cytokines/
Qianting Yang +10 more
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