Magnesium is an essential metal that has important roles in physiological function of the body organs. Ethambutol is an oral antitubercular agent with chelating effects owing to its chemical structure. The aim of present study is to determine whether ethambutol usage can alter serum magnesium concentration in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Sixty patients with diagnosis of pulmonary tuber...

Magnesium is an essential metal that has important roles in physiological function of the body organs. Ethambutol is an oral antitubercular agent with chelating effects owing to its chemical structure. The aim of present study is to determine whether ethambutol usage can alter serum magnesium concentration in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Sixty patients with diagnosis of pulmonary tuber...

Background: Lectin pathway mediates complement activation, which is activated by many microorganisms. This study aimed at determining the serum levels of mannose-binding lectin (MBL) in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, assessing its relationship to antiuberculosis treatment response, and comparing them with a control group.    Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on...

tuberculosis is a continuous threat for health in all parts of the world. an estimated one-third of the world, s population is infected with the mycobacterium tuberculosis and 7 to 8 million people develop tb disease each year. the purpose of this study was to investigate the rate of tuberculosis in the townships of yazd province, iran. during the study period (1997-1999), 3885 suspected tuberc...

tuberculosis is an important opportunistic disease among hiv- infected persons worldwide; from march 1999 to feburery 2001 we had seventeen patients with hiv-infection and tuberculosis. here we are presenting the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of them. all of them were male, 11 patients had pulmonary and 5 patients had extrapulmonary (pleural effusion 1, hepatic granu...

background and aims: one of the most common approach to understanding spatial and temporal trends of event data is to break it up into a series of time snapshots. therefore space-time cube method applied in order to portray the likely trend in occurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) cases. methods: in this study, information of all patients with pulmonary tb recorded in surveillance syste...

a b s t r a c t a few case reports of coinfections with nocardia and mycobacterium tuberculosis (tb) have previously been published in the literature. we report on a case of concomitant pulmonary nocardiosis and tuberculosis, in a recently diagnosed 55-year-old woman, with rheumatoid arthritis, who had been taking a short course of a low dose corticosteroid. the patient was treated with a combi...