The value of C reactive protein measurement in the differential diagnosis of meningitis was assessed in a population where tuberculous meningitis is prevalent. C reactive protein was measured serially with a sensitive radioimmunoassay in sera from 31 children with bacterial meningitis, 15 with tuberculous meningitis (6 with miliary tuberculosis), and 28 with viral meningitis. Concentrations of ...

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Tuberculous mastitis and invasive breast cancers are known to co-exist or occur in the independently of each other, albeit former being less common developed countries. with its clinical presentation morphological features can caricature carcinoma. The overlapping tuberculous metaplastic squamous cell carcinoma often lead to, if no due diligence discretion is used, bewildering misinterpretation...

BACKGROUND: Ten percent of all tuberculosis patients may develop skeletal involvement, and the spine is most common anatomical location. Tuberculous spondylitis further complicated by fast-acid bacilli resistance to usual chemotherapy regimen (multidrug-resistant/MDR) its complications. In this case series, we would like present three MDR tuberculous cases effectively treated with tailored regi...

1. When toxic filtrates from cultures of B coli, B. typhosus, or meningococci are injected into the blood stream, peritoneal cavity, or subcutaneous tissue of tuberculous guinea pigs, the skin at the site of a tuberculin reaction becomes hemorrhagic. The extent of the hemorrhage is proportional to the severity of the tuberculin reaction demonstrable by tests with various dilutions of tuberculin...