Anemia in tuberculosis cases: A biomarker of severity?
IntroductionAnemia is a common condition at tuberculosis diagnosis, and there is evidence that its prevalence is higher in patients with tuberculosis than in those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and healthy controls.
Edson Beyker de Mendonça+6 more
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A Study of N-Acetyl aspartic acid/Creatine Ratio in the White Matter of HIV Positive Patients and Its Application [PDF]
A total of 50 patients were enrolled in the study, and MRI brain with MR spectroscopy was done. Tuberculosis was the most common neurologic disease found in the HIV positive group, consisting of 9 patients. Seven of these patients had tuberculous meningitis amongst which a further 2 had vasculitic infarcts.PML was seen in 6 patients.
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Ischemic cerebrovascular accident associated with bacillary meningoencephalitis in patients with HIV
Tuberculous meningitis is difficult to be diagnosed, it is not important according to morbidity, but it does have a high mortality rate among the affected people.
Carlos Miguel Rios-González+1 more
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A rare case of tuberculous meningitis with pancreatitis
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is the most common form of central nervous system manifestation of tuberculosis. However, tuberculous pancreatitis is rarely reported. We present an 8-year-old female child with TBM who had intractable vomiting that persisted
Drishti Chandru Tolani, Ira Shah
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Modeling the effects of information-dependent vaccination behavior on meningitis transmission [PDF]
We propose a mathematical model to investigate the effects of information-dependent vaccination behavior on meningitis transmission. The information is represented by means of information index as early proposed in (d'Onofrio et al., Theor. pop. biol., 2007).
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TUBERCULOSIS MENINGITIS (TBM) AND HYDROCEPHALUS
Objectives: To determine the frequency of cases detected with hydrocephalus in cases presenting with TBM. Material & methods; This cross sectional study was conducted during January to July 2019. The detailed demographic data was collected. The cases of TBM were selected on clinical and laboratory diagnosis and then they underwent CT scan of brain (
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Tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis in young children [PDF]
SummaryObjectives To document the clinical and diagnostic features of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in young children with and without concomitant miliary tuberculosis (TB).Methods A retrospective comparative study.Results Of 104 children with TBM, 32 (31%), median age 17.0 months, had a miliary appearance on chest radiograph; 72 (69%), median age 30.
Van Den Bos F.+7 more
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Major outcomes of patients with tuberculous meningitis on directly observed thrice a week regime
Background: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of Government of India provides intermittent thrice-a-week directly observed treatment short course (RNTCP regimen).
Thomas Iype+6 more
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TBNet:Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosing System using Deep Neural Networks [PDF]
Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease prevalent around the world. Due to the lack of proper technology in place, the early detection of this disease is unattainable. Also, the available methods to detect Tuberculosis is not up-to a commendable standards due to their dependency on unnecessary features, this make such technology obsolete for a ...
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Epidemic modelling of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds and badgers in Ireland [PDF]
Bovine tuberculosis, a disease that affects cattle and badgers in Ireland, was studied via stochastic epidemic modeling using incidence data from the Four Area Project (Griffin et al., 2005). The Four Area Project was a large scale field trial conducted in four diverse farming regions of Ireland over a five-year period (1997-2002) to evaluate the ...
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