Abstract—Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that remains a health concern. The Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) is a blood test to find out if an individual is tuberculous positive or negative. This study applies statistical analysis to the clinical data of interferon-gamma levels of seventythree subjects who diagnosed pulmonary TB in an anti-tuberculous treatmen...

The occurrence of untoward reactions in tuberculous patients receiving chemotherapy is not uncommon. Occasionally, these effects may be so severe or persistent as to jeopardize the continuation and successful administration of drug therapy. In such instances, the usual symptomatic therapy and anti-histaminic agents may be of no avail. The purpose of this study was: (1) To determine the efficacy...

Spinal tuberculous abscesses usually respond to anti-tuberculous drugs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of surgical drainage after failure of first-line anti-tuberculous drugs. Patients with spinal instability or vertebral collapse were excluded from the study. The authors retrospectively reviewed 11 patients. The operation was successful in all patients. Anterior/posterio...

Three patients with tuberculous meningitis complicated by hypersecretion of anti-diuretic hormone are described. The recognition of this complication is important in the treatment and prognosis of tuberculous meningitis.

background tuberculous brain abscess is an extremely rare manifestation of tuberculous involvement of the central nervous system. in countries such as india where tuberculosis is fairly common, few cases of tuberculous brain abscess have been reported. patient the patient was an 8-year old boy presented with the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and a history of tonic and clonic convulsions since 2 ...

We studied interleukin 1 (IL-1) activity of pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes obtained from ten patients with tuberculous pleurisy and ten patients with malignant pleurisy, using purified protein derivative (PPD) as a stimulating agent. Tuberculous pleural fluid macrophages and peripheral blood monocytes tended to produce higher IL-1 activity than malignant pleural fluid ...

chalcone (1,3-diarylprop-2-en-1-one) derivatives have been introduced as selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors. in the present study, anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of eight novel compounds were evaluated in male mice and wistar rats by using the writhing and formalin-induced paw edema tests respectively. the activities of the compounds were compared with celecoxib as a referenc...

fractions obtained from partitioning of aerial methanolic extract of euphorbia aellenii with chloroform (e2), ethyl acetate (e3), n-butanol (e4) and water (e5) were investigated in vitro for their phytotoxicity, insecticidal, anti-leishmanial, cytotoxicity, antibacterial and antifungal activities. sample e2 appeared to have significant phytotoxic activity. in the insecticidal screening study on...