this study was planned to determine hiv seroprevalence among pulmonary tuberculosis patients, to characterize the isolated mycobacteria into typical and atypical strains and to evaluate the drug resistant pattern of mycobacterial isolates. the study aims to correlate multidrug resistance (mdr) and hiv seropositivity status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. during the year 1994-1997, 750 pulmo...

Appendicitis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is extremely rare and its presentation is atypical [1]. We describe a patient with peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) and perforated tuberculous appendicitis, who was investigated for vague abdominal distention and weight loss. The presentation of types of TB of the appendix and the role of cancer antigen-125 (CA-125) in the diagnosis and follow up of...

It is known that the cultural characteristics of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from tuberculous secretions may be changed under the influence of anti-tuberculosis drugs. It has been suggested that this is due to " biological disintegration" of the bacteria (Lanyi and Eidus, 1954). The process is usually a gradual one. The present report is concerned with the isolation from lary...

introduction: atypical infratemporal fossa infections are rare and potentially fatal.   case report: a case of an aspergillosis localized in the infratemporal fossa and another case of tuberculosis of the infratemporal fossa originating from the maxillary sinus, is described. the first patient was immunocompromised and showed symptoms of facial numbness; whereas the other was an immunocompetent...

opened in July, 1953, the local department of health and the county tuberculosis sanatorium informed us that admission of tuberculous patients would not be a problem , since the county tuberculosis hospitals and clinics could care for the small number of patients. However, from 1953 to the end of 1959, we admitted ill patients, characterized as follows: 1. Active tuberculosis requiring emergenc...

Sarcoidosis is a multi-system disorder characterized by non-caseating granulomas. Depressed cellular immunity predisposes patients to infections with certain intracellular organisms, mostly fungi, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Nocardia species. Isolated liver tuberculosis is a rare condition, and atypical clinical presentation challenges the clinical acumen of the treating physician. Liver sa...

INTRODUCTION Non-tuberculosis mycobacterium is especially seen in AIDS and non-immunosuppressant patients. This study was designed to evaluate data relating to non-tuberculosis mycobacterium content in patients' sputum for the clinical importance. PATIENTS AND METHODS During 2009-2010 at Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital clinics, 75 patients [30 women...

sources. The authors carried out the mass-examination of tuberculosis on the employees of a certain factory and isolated a strain of atypical acid-fast bacilli with unusual biological charactors from sputa of a male worker, whose x-ray picture presented a shadow suspicious of tuberculosis infection but who had no selfconcious symptoms. The patient was kept under observation for a considerably l...

This article introduces the tools and terminology used for the classification of specific isolates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). The utility of these tools and terminology is illustrated by discussing work from independent laboratories that have established a genome-based phylogeny for the MTC. It considers the use of these markers to distinguish atypical isolates not conform...

Dermatomyositis is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy characterized by proximal muscle weakness associated with typical skin abnormalities and compatible electromyographic finds. Tuberculosis could determine several clinical manifestations but the classic one is the lung presentation. Among the extra pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis, the musculoskeletal form is rare and it is usual...