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Clinicoepidemiological Profile and Prognostic Factors in Neurotuberculosis in Children [PDF]

Annals of Child Neurology, 2023
Purpose This study aimed to determine the clinicoepidemiological profile and prognostic factors in children with neurotuberculosis. Methods An observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital on 50 children diagnosed with neurotuberculosis ...
Vikas Sharma, Krishnan Rajeshwari, Deepak Kumar, Garima Gupta   +3 more
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Meningeal tuberculoma mimicking a brain tumor

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
Meningeal tuberculoma is one of the most serious sites of tuberculosis. Its incidence varies depending on the geographical area, rare in Western countries and frequent in developing countries where it represents 5% to 10% of intracranial masses.
Akoli Eklou Baudouin Bravo-Tsri, MD, Issa Konaté, MD, Kouamé Paul Bonfils Kouassi, MD, Estelle Valérie Acko-Ohui, MD, Ange Roland Goulé-BI, MD, Dominique Isart, MD, Emile Kesse Tanoh, MD, Marius Koffi Vangah, MD, Florent Allou Kouadio, MD, B. L. Yao, MD   +9 more
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Miliary Tuberculosis with Meningitis [PDF]

Practical Neurology, 2002
A 25-year-old woman presented to the Centre for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a 1 month history of headache, fever, and vomiting. On examination her Glasgow coma score was 14/15. Her neck was stiff, and she had a right lateral rectus palsy (Fig. 1).
Thwaites, G, Farrar, J
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Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to chronic meningitis in Brazil: a narrative review

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2022
Background Chronic meningitis (CM) is characterized by neurological symptoms associated with the evidence of cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis lasting > 4 weeks. Studies on the management of CM in Brazil are scarce.
Guilherme Diogo Silva, Bruno Fukelmann Guedes, Ióri Rodrigues Junqueira, Hélio Rodrigues Gomes, José Ernesto Vidal   +4 more
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A Case of Aseptic Meningitis Presenting With Widespread Non-Dermatomal Neuropathic Pain. [PDF]

J Gen Fam Med
ABSTRACT Aseptic meningitis occasionally causes neuropathic pain in a dermatomal distribution, but widespread non‐dermatomal pain is extremely rare. We report a case of a 62‐year‐old man with ulcerative colitis who developed neuropathic pain involving the head, trunk, and limbs.
Komoda J.
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Analysis of influencing factors of dismal prognosis in severe tuberculous meningitis

Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery, 2023
Objective To investigate the influencing factors related to long ⁃ term prognosis in patients with severe tuberculous meningitis (TBM). Methods One hundred sixty⁃three patients with severe TBM admitted to Tianjin Haihe Hospital from June 2012 to December
LIU Chen⁃chao, LIU Hui⁃quan, YUAN Xiao⁃yong, WANG Jian, CHEN Shen, WANG Yi⁃yi, LIU Xing⁃jun   +6 more
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Stroke in a Patient with Recurrent Meningeal Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection [PDF]

, 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, Gustavo Mora-García, Gustavo Jiménez-Borré, Javier Segovia-Fuentes, Doris Gómez-Camargo   +4 more
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A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains [PDF]

, 2014
Strain-specific genomic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) is an important factor in pathogenesis that may affect virulence, transmissibility, host response and emergence of drug resistance.
Glynn, Judith R., Clark, T.G., Perdigão, João, Judith R. Glynn, McNerney, R., McNerney, Ruth, Viveiros, M., Glynn, Judith R, Guerra-Assunção, José Afonso, Guerra-Assunção, J.A., Coll, Francesc, Viveiros, Miguel, Isabel Portugal, Clark, Taane G., Perdigão, J., Pain, A., Pain, Arnab, Glynn, J.R., Jose ́ Afonso Guerra-assunção, Portugal, I., Ruth Mcnerney, Miguel Viveiros, Francesc Coll, Portugal, Isabel, Martin, Nigel, Arnab Pain, Nigel Martin, Taane G. Clark, Coll, F., Clark, Taane G   +29 more
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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., Bulajić Milica V., Lešić Aleksandar R.   +2 more
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CCL2 responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis are associated with disease severity in tuberculosis. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND Leucocyte activating chemokines such as CCL2, CCL3, and CXCL8 together with proinflammatory IFNgamma, TNFalpha and downmodulatory IL10 play a central role in the restriction of M.
Hussain Rabia, Cliff, Jacqueline M., Hasan, Z, Jamil, Bushra, Bushra Jamil, Hussain, Rabia, Cliff, Jacqueline M, Ashraf Mussarat, Hazel M Dockrell, Hasan Zahra, Jamil, B, Mussarat Ashraf, Jacqueline M Cliff, Ashraf, Mussarat, Cliff Jacqueline M., Cliff, JM, Irfan, Muhammad, Irfan Muhammad, Ashraf, M, Hussain, R, Muhammad Irfan, Hasan, Zahra, Dockrell Hazel M., Dockrell, HM, Irfan, M, Jamil Bushra, Dockrell, Hazel M, Rabia Hussain, Zahra Hasan   +28 more
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