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Tuberculosis miliar y meningitis multidrogorresistente (MDR) en paciente pediátrico: Reporte de un caso

open access: yes, 2022
Objetive: To describe a pediatric case with initial diagnosis of lymph node tuberculosis (TB) that became multidrug resistant miliar and meningeal tuberculosis (TB-MDR) due to treatment dropout twice.
García-Tello, Angélica Victoria   +5 more
core   +1 more source

An unusual triad: tuberculomas, tubercular meningitis, and hydrosyringomyelia in a child from a suburban region

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emergency Medicine
Central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis is a rare but serious manifestation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, especially in the paediatric population.
Anand Hatgaonkar, Kajal Hatgaonkar
doaj   +1 more source

Sequencing and Annotation of the Genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MYC004, a Strain Causing Meningitis in Mexico

open access: yes, 2018
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain MYC004 was isolated from a Mexican patient with tuberculous meningitis, the most aggressive form of tuberculosis. The draft genome sequence is the first of a meningeal strain of M. tuberculosis
Ana Laura Guillén-Nepita   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Subacute tuberculous meningitis in immunocompetent patients: a diagnostic challenge in the emergency department

open access: yesEmergency Care Journal
Tuberculous meningitis is a rare but severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, often diagnosed late due to its subacute and non-specific clinical symptoms.
Alessandro Bufi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic and microbial characteristics of extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases diagnosed in Malatya, Turkey, 2001-2007

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2011
Background Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) has an increasing rate in Turkey. The reason remains largely unknown. A better understanding of the demographic and microbial characteristics of EPTB in the Turkish population would extend the knowledgebase ...
Koroglu Mehmet   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different sites of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Bénin, 2011.

open access: yes, 2014
Note: * Others include pericardial TB (n = 10), cerebral TB (n = 1), meningeal TB (n = 1), female genital TB (n = 1), male genital TB (n = 3), skin TB (n = 1).TB: Tuberculosis.
Gildas Agodokpessi (584782)   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Time to Diagnosis and Persistence: The Two Major Determinants of Effective Tuberculosis Control

open access: yes, 2015
The greatest challenge confronting effective tuberculosis (TB) eradication is the time to diagnosis, and duration of treatment of chronically infected individuals which represent a pool of infection.
Ruthe, Alaine Tess
core  

Tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis: The Rich focus revisited

open access: yes, 2005
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) develops most often when a caseating meningeal or sub-cortical focus, the Rich focus, discharges its contents into the subarachnoid space.
Schoeman J.F., Schaaf H.S., Donald P.R.
core   +1 more source

Current situation of respiratory tuberculosis in Spain

open access: yes, 2002
In Spain, the Red Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiológica (National Epidemiological Surveillance Network) classifies both respiratory and meningeal tuberculosis as statutorily notifiable diseases (SND), to be reported on an individual basis in accordance ...
Elena Rodríguez Valín
core   +1 more source

Protective effect of neonatal BCG vaccines against tuberculous meningitis

open access: yesBiomolecules & Biomedicine, 2004
Neonatal BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis and provides protection higher than 80% against the development of meningeal and miliary tuberculosis in newborns.
Sandra Puvacić   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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