Evaluation of: Tortoli E, Russo C, Piersimoni C et al. Clinical validation of Xpert MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Eur. Respir. J. doi:10. ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The proportion of tuberculosis cases that are extrapulmonary may have increased by approximately 5% over a ...

Tuberculosis is one of the world's leading infectious diseases. Infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs, but in up to 25 percent of all infected individuals ...

Diagnosing TB usually involves using a sputum sample or a biopsy in the detection tests. This is not just time-consuming or expensive, there are also cases where getting a sputum sample is not easy or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The most common site of extrapulmonary TB infection was the pleural cavity. Comorbidities associated with ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that typically affects the lungs, though it can also involve other body parts. When it affects the lungs, it’s called pulmonary TB. TB outside of the lung is ...

About six miles off the coast of Haifa, a dozen meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea at the site of a submerged prehistoric village called Atlit Yam, researchers in 2008 reported finding the ancient ...

This is an adverse form of the disease which is prevalent especially in our immunocompromised patients from various causes. As the world marks tuberculosis (TB) day with the theme ‘Wanted: Leaders for ...

Nazir Ismail receives funding from the South African Government and other International Funding agencies (Newton Fund, CDC etc). TB most commonly affects the lungs – what’s known as the body’s ...

Tuberculosis (TB) does not only affect the lungs — it can also affect other areas of the body, known as extrapulmonary TB. Types of extrapulmonary TB include gastrointestinal TB, skeletal TB, liver TB ...