Perianal Tuberculosis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by K. Ibn Majdoub Hassani, S. Ait Laalim, I. Toughrai, K. Mazaz

“…Extra pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for less than 15% of all cases of tuberculosis whereas the Intestinal one constitutes less than 1% of the extrapulmonary forms of the disease. …”
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Clinicoradiological Profile of Lower Lung Field Tuberculosis Cases among Young Adult and Elderly People in a Teaching Hospital of Madhya Pradesh, India by Saurabh Kumar Singh, Kamlesh Kumar Tiwari

“…The total of 2136 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis was studied. Among them 215 (10%) cases of patients were diagnosed as the case of lower lung field tuberculosis. …”
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Challenges in diagnosis and treatment of cushing disease in a 12-year-old boy. Case report by Agim Gjikopulli, Sonila Tomori, Marjeta Tanka, Donjeta Bali

“…An ectopic ACTH-dependent Cushing syndrome was suspected together with neuroendocrine neoplasia (carcinoid tumor) as a thoracic CT showed a nodular lesion with regular-lobulated sharp contours in the lower lobe of the right lobe resulted in pulmonary tuberculosis granuloma. Even imaging failed to identify the ACTHsecreting microadenoma; the decisive examination was an intervention to collect samples from the inferior petrosal sinus during the CRH test, which found a left-side ACTH-secreting focus. …”
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Towards a unified regional surveillance system: the Gulf CDC’s first initiatives by Sami Al Mudarra, Lamis Alghamdi, Ahmed AlHatlan, Andrew Amato Gauci, Aleksandra Polkowska Kramek, Alaa Alqurashi, Nouf Alzuhayri, Sadeem AlShiban, Bushra Alghamdi, Pasi Penttinen

“…The final agreed list of diseases and conditions for the pilot are the CDs: acute respiratory infection (ARI), endemic dengue, brucellosis, measles and pulmonary tuberculosis together with the NCDs: cancer (registry) and road traffic injuries. …”
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Miliary Tuberculosis-Related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Complicated with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Syndrome by Sz-Jiun Shiu, Ting-Ting Li, Bor-Jen Lee, Pin-Kuei Fu, Chen-Yu Wang, Sz-Iuan Shiu

“…In this report, we present the case of a 74-year-old Taiwanese woman suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and miliary tuberculosis, and she developed ARDS and HLH on the 3rd day after admission. …”
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Synthetic Indicator’s Evaluation of the tuberculosis program. Health Areas I and II. Cienfuegos 2013 by Narciso Águila Rodríguez, Tamara Montenegro Calderón, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, María Lina Valdés Gómez, Lizette Rodríguez Fernández, Eneida Bravo Polanco

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to evlautae the synthetic indicators for the location and detection of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. <br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive research in health services and systems realized in health areas I and II of the Cienfuegos Municipality in the years 2013. …”
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TOPD Phenotype versus COPD: Pulmonary Function Spectrum Beyond the Limits of Spirometry by Bishal Debbarma, Anand Srivastava, Sapna Dixit, Rajiv Garg, S.K Verma, RAS Kushwaha, Santosh Kumar, Ajay Kumar Verma, Darshan Kumar Bajaj, Ankit Kumar, Jyoti Bajpai, Surya Kant

“…Methodology: We enrolled a total of 100 patients, in that 50 of whom had obstructive airway symptoms with a history of (treated) pulmonary tuberculosis (with a microbiological or radiological evidence in the past) and 50 of whom were diagnosed with COPD without any history of tuberculosis. …”
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Levels of Interferon-Gamma Increase after Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a High-Transmission Setting by Iukary Takenami, Brook Finkmoore, Almério Machado, Krisztina Emodi, Lee W. Riley, Sérgio Arruda

“…A total of 26 household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were positive for LTBI by tuberculin skin test completed six months of treatment and submitted a blood sample for a follow-up examination. …”
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Incidental Finding of Nocardia: A Case Series from a Tertiary Care Centre in Uttarakhand by Aroop Mohanty, Suneeta Meena, Subodh Pandey Kumar, Puneet Kumar Gupta, Neelam Kaistha, Pratima Gupta, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Sasi Rekha

“…The most common conditions causing immunosuppression were type II DM, COPD, and pulmonary tuberculosis.…”
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Tuberculosis Classification using SVM and Modified CNN by SRINIVAS BABU N, SHASHIKIRAN S, M JAYANTHI, Rajani N, K M PALANISWAMY, M R KUSHALATHA

“…The PCA in this system locates the elements and extracts a large amount of variance technique applied to the full chest radiograph for pulmonary tuberculosis identification accuracy using SVM is 93.14% and modified CNN 96.72% respectively. …”
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Identification of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Sputum Patients with Suspected Tuberculosis by Fanny Indriyani Biyang, Muhammad Nasrum Massi, Lisa Tenriesa Muslich, Andi Rofian Sultan, Mochammad Hatta, Ahmad Rahmat Ramadhan, Baedah Madjid

“…Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is predominantly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and can also involve nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). …”
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Bullous Scabies in an Immunocompromised Host by James R. Wester, Lesley E Jackson, Kathryn Mokgosi, Tomer Barak, Mahmoud Abu Hazeem

“…On admission, CD4 count was 46 cells/mm3 and viral load was >750000 copies/mL. Pulmonary tuberculosis testing via sputum was negative twice. …”
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A Case of Disseminated Cryptococcal Infection and Concurrent Lung Tuberculosis in a Patient under Steroid Therapy for Interstitial Pneumonia by Aoi Kuroda, Sadatomo Tasaka, Kazuma Yagi, Takao Mochimaru, Tetsuo Tani, Ho Namkoong, Kyuto Tanaka, Yusuke Suzuki, Mami Hatano, Naoki Hasegawa, Yasunori Okada, Tomoko Betsuyaku

“…While the patient was receiving anticryptococcal therapy, pulmonary tuberculosis also emerged. The patient developed acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia and passed away. …”
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Fatal Hemoptysis due to Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicated by Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tuberculosis by Ioannis Kokkonouzis, Ioannis Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos Doulgerakis, Grigorios Tsonis, Ioannis Lampaditis, Nikolaos Saridis, Vasilios Skoufaras

“…A 51-year-old man, with a history of severe COPD and bilateral pneumothorax, who was under treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis due to mycobacterium avium, was admitted due to high-grade fever, weight loss, cough, and production of purulent sputum, for almost one month without any special improvement despite adequate antibiotics treatment in outpatient setting. …”
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Interaction of Glycemic Control and Statin Use on Diabetes-Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome: A Nested Case-Control Study by Xiangrui Meng, Huiqiu Zheng, Jian Du, Xuemei Wang, Yanling Wang, Jing Hu, Jing Zhao, Qianqian Du, Yulong Gao

“…This study aims to explore the interaction of glycemic control and statin use on the treatment outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis-diabetes comorbidity (PTB-DM) patients. …”
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Non Tuberculous Mycobacterium Infection with Cavernolith: A Rare Case Report by Anjana Ledwani, Babaji Ghewade, Vivek Alone, Ashwin Karnan

“…Hereby, authors report a rare case of cavernolithiasis in a 35-year-old-female patient with an NTM infection who was previously diagnosed and treated for Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB). This patient’s sputum was positive for Acid-fast Bacilli (AFB), and sputum culture showed growth of NTM species. …”
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Assessment of Rifampicin Resistance in Presumptive Tuberculosis Cases at Dadeldhura Hospital of Sudurpaschim Province of Nepal by Madan Singh Bohara

“… Objectives: This study sought to determine the prevalence of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in patients at Dadeldhura Hospital in Nepal who were suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis. The study's primary objectives were to assess the prevalence of MTB and RR-TB and to identify related sociodemographic variables. …”
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The causes and numbers of hospital admissions and deaths during the Korean War by Kun Hwang, Hun Kim, Chan Yong Park

“…The most common category of causes of death was wounds (gunshot or stab; n=3,199, 25.8%), followed by wounds from fragments (n=3,173, 25.6%), pulmonary tuberculosis (n=1,611, 13.0%), and other respiratory diseases (n=1,188, 9.6%). …”
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Lipoid Pneumonia in a Gas Station Attendant by Gladis Isabel Yampara Guarachi, Valeria Barbosa Moreira, Angela Santos Ferreira, Selma M. De A. Sias, Cristovão C. Rodrigues, Graça Helena M. do C. Teixeira

“…This is often confused with bacterial pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis due to a nonspecific clinical and radiologic picture. …”
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Burden and Associated Factors of Tuberculosis Among Household Contacts of Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patients of Aligarh by Simon Jude, Ali J. Abedi, Saira Mehnaz, Mohammad Shameem

“…Materials and Method: This cross-sectional study, which was conducted within the community, focused on the household contacts of recently diagnosed patients of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) who were confirmed through microbiological testing. …”
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