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Incidence of tuberculous meningitis in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of tuberculous meningitis in the State of Santa Catarina (SC), Brazil, during the period from 2001 to 2010.
Cíntia Helena de Souza, Ayaka Yamane, Jeison Cleiton Pandini, Luciane Bisognin Ceretta, Fabiane Ferraz, Glauco Duarte da Luz, Priscyla Waleska Simões   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering Tuberculosis Screening with Explainable Self-Supervised Deep Neural Networks [PDF]

2024 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Miami, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 794-797
Tuberculosis persists as a global health crisis, especially in resource-limited populations and remote regions, with more than 10 million individuals newly infected annually. It stands as a stark symbol of inequity in public health. Tuberculosis impacts roughly a quarter of the global populace, with the majority of cases concentrated in eight countries,
arxiv   +1 more source

Evidence of Pellagra on 19th Century Human Crania From Northern Italy by Combining Stable Isotope and Paleopathological Analyses

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT Pellagra is a disease caused by a nutritional deficiency, with fatal outcome due to multiple‐organ failure, that affected European rural areas until the early decades of the 20th century, especially Veneto region (Italy). At the skeletal level, previous studies pointed out that pathological signs left by the disease are generic and typical of ...
Nicola Carrara, Gregorio Dal Sasso, Anna Addis, Anna Domanico, Nereo Preto, Elisa Saler, Telmo Pievani, Gilberto Artioli, Cinzia Scaggion   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Rare Presentation of Invasive Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System in an Immunocompetent Patient in a Nonendemic Country

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2018
We herein report a rare case of a 25-year-old immunocompetent male patient with disseminated tuberculosis of central nervous system (CNS), first presenting as multiple cerebral lesions with no meningeal involvement. Subsequent diagnostic workup disclosed
Rita Martins, Carlos Casimiro, Ana Valverde, Jose Campillo   +3 more
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Sweet Syndrome With Painless Skin Lesions and Myopericarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Sweet syndrome is a rare inflammatory disease that typically presents with painful erythematous skin lesions and fever. Although the skin lesions are generally painful on clinical examination, in this case, they were noted to be painless without tenderness.
Fakhruddin Almuzghi, Islam Elzouki, Moaz O. Moursi, Asiya Aqeel Thakur, Mahir Petkar   +4 more
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Aspectos epidemiológicos da meningite tuberculosa em menores de 15 anos de idade, na Grande São Paulo, Brasil, 1982 -1983 Epidemiological aspects of tuberculous meningits in children under 15 years of age, Greater S. Paulo, Brazil, 1982 -1983

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1989
Foram estudadas algumas características epidemiológicas dos casos de meningite tuberculosa ocorridos em menores de 15 anos na Grande São Paulo (Brasil), nos anos de 1982 e 1983.
Stella M.C. Nardy, Roberto Brólio, Marília Belluomini   +2 more
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Tuberculous meningitis of severe expression in pediatrics

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem worldwide. The actual magnitude of this epidemic is underestimated due to difficulties in diagnosis in children and the limited reporting of this disease.
Guiliana Reyes Florián, Martin Seminario-Aliaga   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of underreporting in Brazilian tuberculosis data, 2012-2014 [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Analysis of burden of underregistration in tuberculosis data in Brazil, from 2012 to 2014. Approches of Oliveira et al. (2020) and Stoner et al. (2019) are applied. The main focus is to illustrated how the approach of Oliveira et al. (2020) can be applied when the clustering structure is not previously available.
arxiv  

Preclinical B cell depletion and safety profile of a brain‐shuttled crystallizable fragment‐silenced CD20 antibody

Clinical and Translational Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.
The BBB hinders mAb‐based brain disorder therapies. A brain‐targeted B‐cell‐depleting mAb for MS that efficiently crosses the BBB via hTfR1 was developed using Brainshuttle technology (1A and 1B). The Brainshuttle‐CD20 mAb was well tolerated (2A and 2B) and displayed B‐cell‐killing properties (1C), paving the way for future development and clinical ...
Vanessa L. Schumacher, Solen Pichereau, Juliana Bessa, Juergen Bachl, Sylvia Herter, Felix C. Weber, Johannes Auer, Anja Kipar, Michael Winter, Martina Stirn, Michael B. Otteneder, Kevin Brady, Anne Eichinger‐Chapelon, Adrian Roth, Nadine Stokar‐Regenscheit, Nicole Clemann, Shanon Seger, Claudia Senn, Juliane Hönig, Cordula Jany, Elisa Di Lenarda, Alain C. Tissot, Christian Klein, H.‐Christian von Büdingen, Robert Mader, Mohammed Ullah, Niels Janssen, Eduard Urich   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case report: Diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis

Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 112-116, Spring 2025.
We reported a case of idiopathic hypertrophic dura meningitis diagnosed in our hospital. The patient repeatedly suffered from headaches, followed by blurred vision in the right eye. During this period, multiple sclerosis was considered for diagnosis, and it improved after hormone treatment.
Zhong Luo, Piao Cao, Jing‐Qing Xu, Rong Yan, Jian Wang, Tao Liang, Ya Chen, Zu‐Cai Xu   +7 more
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