Heterogenous Immune Response to TB is Not a False Negative

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

TB or not TB? Difficulties in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV-negative immigrants to Germany

BACKGROUND Immigrants to Germany and their children are at particular risk for tuberculosis (TB). - METHODS 35 Patients (10 male / 25 female aged 2 - 59 years (median 33 years) originating mostly from high incidence countries in Asia (19 (54.3%)) in Africa (14 (40.0%) and East Europe (2 (5.7%)), attended at the Tropical Medicine Unit were analysed. - RESULTS Primary clinical presentation wa...

TB or not TB: treat to see.

This year, some 2400 young Australians entered our medical schools, and in the coming years their numbers will increase further. The Prime Minister recently announced yet another new medical school and continues to top up medical school places. With these developments one thing is obvious — policy announcement is easy, but policy implementation is not. Already, there is talk that the existing h...

XDR-TB or not XDR-TB? That is the question.

IZINDABA 318 A top-level think tank on KwaZulu-Natal's perplexing 'outbreak' of XDR-TB has recommended urgent inpatient point prevalence surveys and better screening of HIV-positive TB-symptomatic patients in order to better assess its country-wide extent. Speaking after provincial health, World Health Association (WHO) and Medical Research Council (MRC) officials met in Pietermaritzburg at the...

A case of pulmonary tuberculosis with false negative QuantiFERON TB-2G Test.

A 57-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a high fever and productive cough. He had a previous history of total gastrectomy and splenectomy at the age of 45 years due to gastric cancer. He also showed severe macrocytic anemia with low vitamin B12, and an infiltrative shadow was found in the right lung on an X-ray. Sputum examination on admission revealed no significant pathogenic bact...