1349. Risk Factors for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Greece, a Low Tuberculosis Burden and High Immigrant Receiving Country

[Extrapulmonary tuberculosis, risk factors and incidence].

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: epidemiology and risk factors.

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology and risk factors associated with extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). METHOD Cases of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed from 1991 to 2008 in a Caucasian population were classified as EPTB or pulmonary TB (PTB). Of all cases, 63.7% were followed up in a specialist TB unit. A standardised protocol for data collection was used, including: gender, age, BCG vaccina...

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains and Host Risk Factors in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil

BACKGROUND Factors related to the development of extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis (EPTB) are still poorly understood, particularly in high-endemic countries like Brazil. The objective of the paper is to determine host and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strain-related factors associated with the development of EPTB in Espírito Santo state, Brazil. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a retr...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis

316 Tuberculosis can involve any organ system in the body. While pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common presentation, extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is also an important clinical problem. The term EPTB has been used to describe isolated occurrence of of tuberculosis at body sites other than the lung. However, when an extrapulmonary focus is evident in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosi...

Piecing the puzzle together: foreign-born tuberculosis in an immigrant-receiving country.

In major immigrant-receiving countries, annual foreign-born tuberculosis (TB) case counts and rates are relatively constant. Why this is so, and who might be a high-yield target for screening for latent TB infection, remain open questions. Foreign-born TB in Canada during 1986-2002 was retrospectively examined using national TB and immigration data as well as census data. Case counts and rates ...