Blood groups and pulmonary tuberculosis. Russo (Pr. Med., 1933, 13)

Incidence of ABO and RH blood groups in pulmonary tuberculosis in different ethnic groups.

more susceptible to pulmonary tuberculosis; but in the same year Campbell and in 1961 Lewis could not find any significant difference in the distribution of Rh blood groups in pulmonary tuberculosis from that of the control group. With this background, the present work was undertaken in the three different ethnic group patients of the tuberculosis hospital of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association o...

BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Sports Med 2004; 34 (13): 871-889

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Laryngeal tuberculosis without pulmonary involvement

Background: Tuberculosis of the larynx is a rare form of tuberculosis. Patients usually present with hoarseness or dysphagia and other nonspecific constitutional symptoms like fever or localized pain. In this study, we present a case of primary vocal cord lesion with tuberculosis. Case presentation: A 72 year old man presented with hoarseness of voice, low grade fever, and night sweating with i...