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Meningeal TB in a 39-Year-Old Male Presenting with Headache
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2017 Meningeal tuberculosis is rare in the developed world, with only 92 cases of meningeal TB reported in the United States in 2014 according to the CDC (CDC, 2015).
Jason Selinger, Thar El Baage
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Time trend and clinical pattern of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Serbia, 1993-2007 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2012 Background/Aim. Increased incidence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (XPTB) is reported worldwide. Serbia is a country in socio-economic transition period with lowmiddle HIV prevalence and intermediate-to-low tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate, 100 ...
Pešut Dragica P. +2 more
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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.
Alexandre R.D. Yacoub +5 more
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Disseminated tuberculosis with tuberculous meningitis in an immunocompetent host [PDF]
Oxford Medical Case Reports, 2014 Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) results from the lymphohematogenous spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Despite the availability of effective therapy, diagnosis is usually late and mortality remains high. We report a case of a 29-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse that presented with altered mental status and was found to have a 'tree-in ...
Patrick Hurley +2 more
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Intra-abdominal lymphatic tuberculosis as a rare case of small intestine volvulus
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2019 Tuberculosis used to be uncommon in the developed countries but seems to be still on rampant in developing countries. However, there seems to be an increasing occurrence in the developed countries too mainly due to low living conditions, increased ...
Filitsa Konstantara +8 more
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Intradural Spinal Tuberculosis in the Absence of Vertebral or Meningeal Tuberculosis: A Case Report
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2006 We present a patient with spinal intradural tuberculosis in the absence of both vertebral and meningeal tuberculosis. Diagnosis was made based on intra-operative findings and was confirmed by histopathology.
CK Sree Harsha, AP Shetty, S Rajasekaran
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Procalcitonin as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Factor for Tuberculosis Meningitis [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Neurology, 2016 We investigated the potential role of serum procalcitonin in differentiating tuberculosis meningitis from bacterial and viral meningitis, and in predicting the prognosis of tuberculosis meningitis.This was a retrospective study of 26 patients with tuberculosis meningitis.
Si Eun Kim +7 more
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Tuberculosis Meningitis, still Misunderstood
Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases, 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 9 millions of people developed tuberculosis in 2013, and 1.5 million died, including 360 000 people who were infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) . 133 years after Robert Koch discovered the bacillus that cause the disease, tuberculosis remains a major global health problem. Tuberculosis meningitis (
Yanelis Pernas Sánchez +1 more
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Hydrocephalus Caused by Tuberculous Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Young Adult: A Case Report
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2023 Rizaldy Taslim Pinzon,1,2 Vanessa Veronica1 1Faculty of Medicine, Duta Wacana Christian University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 2Department of Neurology, Bethesda Hospital, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaCorrespondence: Rizaldy Taslim Pinzon, Duta Wacana Christian ...
Pinzon RT, Veronica V
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The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2008 The factors that govern the development of tuberculosis disease are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.
Maxine Caws +27 more
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