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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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Recurrent Heerfordt-Waldenström Syndrome with thyroid and meningeal involvement in a Chinese woman

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2023
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology, manifesting with bilateral hilar adenopathy, pulmonary reticular opacities, skin, joint or eye lesions.
Joseph J. Zhao, Yung Sang Lau, Jacob Cheng, Kian Kheng Queck, Jane Yap   +4 more
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Human tuberculosis - an ancient disease, as elucidated by ancient microbial biomolecules [PDF]

, 2009
Tuberculosis is a major cause of death but infected people with effective immunity may remain healthy for years, suggesting long-term coexistence of host and pathogen.
Donoghue, HD
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Multiple intestinal perforations as a primary manifestation of abdominal tuberculosis in a HIV-infected patient

Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2010
Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is the sixth commonest extra-pulmonary TB form after lymphatic, genitourinary, bone and joint, miliary and meningeal tuberculosis.
Amir Hossein Sarrami, Mohsen Sharifi, Majid Ahsan, Noushin Afsharmoghaddam   +3 more
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Acute Stroke in Tubercular Meningitis: A Case Report

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2019
Most of the strokes in tubercular meningitis are multiple, bilateral, and located in the basal ganglia, especially the ‘tubercular zone’, which comprises of the caudate, anterior thalamus, anterior limb, and genu of the internal capsule.
Suzit Bhusal, Sujata Dahal, Neha Gautam, Prakash Banjade   +3 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.
Leonardo Giacomini, Alexandre Yacoub, Roger Neves Mathias, Enrico Guizoni, Andrei Joaquim, Helder Tedeschi   +5 more
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Missed opportunities for tuberculosis diagnosis. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: In high tuberculosis (TB) burden, resource-poor countries, sputum smear microscopy remains the mainstay of diagnosis. The low sensitivity of this test means that patients with smear-negative but culture-positive TB pass undetected through the
Trejos, N, Bailey, SL, Roper, MH, Moore, DAJ, Huayta, M, López Alarcón, V   +5 more
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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
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Paradoxical reaction to the treatment of tuberculosis uncovering previously silent meningeal disease

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
The development of paradoxical clinical worsening following initiation of tuberculosis treatment may complicate the clinical course of both HIV-infected and uninfected patients.
Walter A. Eyer-Silva, Jorge Francisco C. Pinto, Juçara Árabe, Carlos Alberto Morais-de-Sá   +3 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus increases the risk of tuberculosis due to recent re-infection in individuals with latent infection. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus associated tuberculosis (TB) disease can follow reactivation of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection or recent (re-)infection with M. tuberculosis. If contemporary TB cases share identical M.
Fine, P.E.M., Glynn, J.R., Mallard, K., Sichali, L., Crampin, A.C., Mallard, K, French, N, Houben, RMGJ, Malema, S, Glynn, JR, Sichali, L, Houben, R.M.G.J, Malema, S., Crampin, AC, Fine, PEM, French, N.   +15 more
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