Response: Blood culture for suspected disseminated tuberculosis

Blood culture for suspected disseminated tuberculosis.

Sir, Although blood culture was included in the 'work up' of the patient who presented with a month's history of low-grade fever and slowly progressive disturbed consciousness, 1 there was no mention of whether or not some of the blood cultures were specifically for the purpose of identifying bacteraemic Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for which human im-munodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a ri...

Abdominal and pericardial ultrasound in suspected extrapulmonary or disseminated tuberculosis.

OBJECTIVE Tuberculosis (TB) in patients with or without advanced HIV infection may present as smear-negative, extrapulmonary and/or disseminated forms. We studied the role of pericardial and abdominal ultrasound examinations in the determination of extrapulmonary or disseminated TB. METHODS A prospective descriptive and analytic cross-sectional study design was used to determine the ultrasoun...

Evaluation of Blood Culture of Neonatas Suspected Septicaemia in Hazrate Masoomeh Hospital of kermanshah ,Iran(2006)

Abstract Background and objectives: Blood culture is a critical part of evaluation of Neonate suspected wath Septicaemia. This phenomenon is one of the most important causes of neonates in Neonatal. Material and Methods: This study was carried out on 1470 somples of neonates suspected with bacteraemia , using reutine microbiologicul technique. The samples wene assessed in hazrate Masoomeh hospi...

Disseminated multi-organ tuberculosis.

A 58-year-old immunocompetent man presented with a 6-month history of cough, fever and swelling of the upper chest wall. Computed tomography showed involvement of the clavicle, sternum, lungs, pleura and pericardium. Trans-bronchial biopsy of the lungs, and surgical debridement with partial resection of the manubrium revealed infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Figs. 1 and 2). Fig. 1. Co...

Pancytopenia in disseminated tuberculosis.