Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Peninsular Malaysia: retrospective study of 195 cases
... with tuberculosis who were registered at the National Tuberculosis Center (NTBC), Kuala Lumpur, ...developed tuberculosis of organs other than the lungs eg pleura, lymph node, abdomen, genito-urinary ...
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Predictors for false negative QuantiFERON TB Gold assay results in patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis
... Abbreviations CNS: Central nervous system; EPTB: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis; IGRA: Interferon-gamma release assay; GI: Gastrointestinal; PCR: Polymerase chain reaction; QFT-GIT: QuantiF[r] ...
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Metastatic angiosarcoma of unknown primary site misdiagnosed as extrapulmonary tuberculosis
... A 32-year-old male with no significant medical history presented to our Internal Medicine department with a history of constitutional symptoms that were associated with atypical left-sided chest pain, which led to the ...
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Original Article Evaluation of Xpert MTB/RIF in detection of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases in China
... Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and rifampin resistance in pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in ...clinically-diagnosed extrapulmonary TB pa- ...and ...
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Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Two Year Review of Cases at the General Hospital Kota Bharu
... Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis A Two Year Review of Cases at the General Hospital Kota Bharu ORIGINAL ARTICLE Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis A Two Year Review of Cases at the General Hospital Kota Bharu I N[.] ...
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Segmentation of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Infection Using Modified Automatic Seeded Region Growing
... In the image segmentation process of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging, previous works used information in CT only for segmenting the image without utilizing the information ...
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To Study Clinical Pattern of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV Positive Patients
... pulmonary tuberculosis is reported to occur more frequently at inaccessible ...pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV Positive patient coming to ART Centre, New civil hospital ...of Extrapulmonary ...
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Abnormal Immune Responses in Persons with Previous Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in an In Vitro Model That Simulates In Vivo Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... previous extrapulmonary tuberculosis have reduced peripheral blood mononuclear cell cytokine production and CD4 ⴙ lymphocytes compared to persons with previous pulmonary tuberculosis or latent ...
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Black race, sex, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis risk: an observational study
... of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is determined by the degree of exposure to the pathogen and host immune factors that affect tuber- culosis risk after ...M. tuberculosis infection ...of ...
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Index-TB Guidelines: Guidelines on extrapulmonary tuberculosis for India
... Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is frequently a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. It is a common opportunistic infection in people living with HIV/AIDS and other immunocompromised states such as ...
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Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by Smear, Culture, and PCR Using Universal Sample Processing Technology
... of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is challenging since conventional techniques have ...99 extrapulmonary speci- mens collected from 87 ...of extrapulmonary tuberculosis ...
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Rapid Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by Ligase Chain Reaction Amplification
... of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, the LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis Assay from Abbott Laboratories, was ...M. tuberculosis Assay were compared with those from culture and the final clinical ...
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Xpert MTB/RIF: a New Pillar in Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis?
... of tuberculosis (TB) cases in India are estimated to have extrapulmonary disease, and due to a lack of diagnostic means, they often remain ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis and multidrug resistance is a ...
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Comparative analysis of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis of 411 cases
... pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and 203 were diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) ...ons: Extrapulmonary involvement of tuberculosis is common and females are more likely to ...
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Increased Frequency of Regulatory T Cells and T Lymphocyte Activation in Persons with Previously Treated Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
... Second, extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a complex dis- ease, and different sites of disease manifestation may have differ- ent pathophysiologies ...of extrapulmonary disease is ...pulmonary ...
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Rapid Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by PCR: Impact of Sample Preparation and DNA Extraction
... suspected extrapulmonary tuberculosis, rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis is of prime importance, since traditional techniques of detecting acid-fast bacilli have ...144 extrapulmonary specimens ...
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Novel human genetic variants associated with extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a pilot genome wide association study
... (extrapulmonary tuberculosis vs PPD +, extrapulmonary tuberculosis vs pulmonary tuberculosis and any tuberculosis vs PPD +, respectively), as well as the coverage achieved using ...
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Early Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by a New Procedure Combining Broth Culture and PCR
... of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is difficult because of the paucibacillary nature of these ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct ...M. tuberculosis prepared in ...
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Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance
... have extrapulmonary TB from all settings and coun- ...treated extrapulmonary TB so as to avoid the selection bias that may arise by limiting to a group that is already at elevated risk of ...
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Detection of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients with the 38-kilodalton antigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a rapid membrane-based assay.
... healthy control group compared with that in the adult healthy control group (2% [1 of 44]) (Fig. 1) suggests that more anti- body against the 38-kDa antigen was present in this group than in the adult control group. One ...
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