background and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) is the major public health problem in the world. each year there are 2-3 million deaths worldwide caused by tb. the increasing incidence of multi drug resistance tuberculosis (mdr-tb) worldwide highlights the urgent need to search for new anti-tuberculosis compounds. it has been reported that medicinal plant, dracocephalum kotschyi, possesses some an...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the major global causes death; Mycobacterium it. Approximately 10% patients with TB may develop extrapulmonary bone tuberculosis, spine being most affected, representing 1 to 2% all cases. Pott disease is a form TB, and recently it has shown significant resurgence in developed nations possibly impacted by migration. often misdiagnosed or sometimes diagnosed duri...

introduction: mycobacterial tuberculosis (tb) infection is a serious opportunistic infection in renal transplant patients. although tb is normally considered as an opportunistic infection of the early period, it can be diagnosed at any time. in this study four patients who suffered from tb were examined. cases report: among 200 patients who were monthly examined in sina hospital of tehran, tb w...

Tuberkuliozė (TB) – tai infekcinė, uždegiminė liga, sukeliama mikobakterijų, priklausančių Mycobacterium tuberculosis kompleksui. TB įprastai yra lėtinė liga ir dažniausiai pažeidžia plaučius.

background and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) is a major problem in the world. treatment and control of tb needs detection of the mycobacterium tuberculosis (mt) in the proper samples. while smear doesn’t have enough sensitivity, culture and pcr are expensive, time consuming and unavailable in many centers. recent development of a rapid tb antigen detection test (prtbk) at pasteur institute of i...

Introduction. The development of effective test systems for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and the study factors influencing their sensitivity specificity constitute urgent tasks given unstable epidemiological situation with TB in Ukraine world. aimed to determine clinical laboratory features pulmonary that may affect IgG antibody detection human serum by immuno-enzyme system “IB-Chem Anti-Mycobac...

background: determining the temporal variation and forecasting the incidence of smear positive tuberculosis (tb) can play an important role in promoting the tb control program. its results may be used as a decision-supportive tool for planning and allocating resources. the present study forecasts the incidence of smear positive tb in iran. methods: this a longitudinal study using monthly tuberc...

OBJECTIVE To determine if Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be detected in corneas of donors who have active tuberculosis (TB) disease using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or culture. DESIGN This is a prospective cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS 25 corneas (12 from TB-negative donors and 13 from TB-positive donors) from the Sta. Lucia International Eye Bank were submitted to the TB Researc...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is a global emergency predominantly affecting developing countries. HIV has been the single most important reason for acquisition of tuberculosis for many patients. Conversely, tuberculosis can result in rapid progression of HIV disease. Ethiopia is a country affected seriously by HIV and tuberculosis. The main aim of this study is assessment of the types of tuberculosis...

conclusions molecular epidemiology studies of infectious diseases have been useful when bacterial isolates have been clustered in a period of time and in different geographical regions with variable antibiotic resistance patterns. in spite of high geographical differences and different antibiotic resistant patterns, low genetic diversity among the studied tb isolates may refer to the low rate o...