Tuberculosis is a high-incidence public health problem in Peru. In our context, seen commonly as pulmonary infection. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis gastric rare, both primary or secondary infection, with just few case reports published about these kinds of presentations. This report presents 44-year-old female patient weight loss, dyspepsia, and abdominal pain. Upper endoscopy reveals antral poly...

We read the article by Merino et al in a recent issue of CHEST (May 2001)1 with interest, as childhood tuberculosis is one of the major problems in our country, and we have had quite good experience in our center.2 We believe that there are some points in the article that need to be clarified. In the article, the tuberculin skin test result was considered positive if the palpable induration was...

INTRODUCTION Expression of Suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS)-1 molecules is increased in patients with tuberculosis (TB). Early Secreted Antigen Target (ESAT)-6 kDa - induced IFN-γ responses indicate Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The effect of ESAT6- stimulation on SOCS1 in the host is not known. METHODOLOGY Healthy asymptomatic controls had a negative (n = 16) or a positive ( n...

most people infected with m .tuberculosis do not develop active disease. in healthy individuals, the lifetime risk of developing infection to disease is 5-10%. reactivation of tb often occurs in older children and adolescent and is more common in patients who acquire tb at age 7 years and older. pulmonary tuberculosis may manifest in several forms, including endobronchial tb with focal lymphade...

a 46- year–old man with pulmonary tuberculosis which had treated with ant tuberculosis drugs was referred to medical mycology laboratory, school of public health and institute of public health research for coughing and bloody sputum. chest x-ray revealed a cavern with a moveable mass in right apical lobe. direct examination of sputum showed wide septated dichotomous hyphae and aspergillus fumig...

background human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing strategy for tuberculosis (tb) patients in some high hiv incidence countries has been recommended based on interaction between hiv and tb. objectives the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of hiv infection among newly detected pulmonary tb patients. patients and methods in a cross sectional study,104 cases including 95 non injec...

BACKGROUND Quick diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and extra-pulmonary TB are urgently needed in clinical diagnosis. Our research aims to investigate the usefulness of the interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB. METHODS We performed TB antibody and TB-IGRA tests on 389 pulmonary TB patients (including 120 sm...

Objectives: This study was undertaken to see the role of AFB microscopy and culture for the diagnosis of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Design and Setting: This descriptive study was carried out at PMRC TB Research Centre King Edward Medical University/Mayo Hospital Lahore. Subject and Methods: Symptomatic suspects of extra-pulmonary TB were asked to submit their respective samples for AFB smear...