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Proportions and determinants of successful tuberculosis treatment among tuberculosis patients with comorbidity registered in National Tuberculosis Registry in Negeri Sembilan from year 2018-2023.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Jan 01, 2025 Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major global health challenges and concerns. Despite the availability of effective treatment in Malaysia, it remained a consistently high ... Read more
SELF-REPORTED MULTI-MORBIDITY WITH TUBERCULOSIS: DATA FROM THE KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA INTEGRATED POPULATION HEALTH SURVEY (KPIPHS) IN PAKISTAN.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Nov 29, 2024 With the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in a country that is already facing high tuberculosis (TB) burden, TB multi-morbidity is likely to pose a ... Read more
Scrofuloderma of the Intermammary Area in an Adolescent Female: A Case Report.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Mar 01, 2025 Scrofuloderma, a rare form of cutaneous tuberculosis (CTB), typically arises from underlying tuberculous lymphadenitis. Although CTB comprises only 1%-2% of extrapulmonary cases, its burden may ... Read more
Economic evaluation of diagnostic tests for Thai patients with tuberculosis: A dynamic transmission model approach.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Mar 03, 2025 Conventional tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is time-consuming, while newer molecular assays such as Xpert MTB/RIF and loop-mediated amplification test for TB (TB-LAMP) provide faster results but ... Read more
Transforming Tuberculosis Care: Optimizing Large Language Models For Enhanced Clinician-Patient Communication
Tuberculosis News
Publication date: Feb 28, 2025 Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease globally, with the highest burden in low- and middle-income countries. In these regions, ... Read more
Tuberculous meningitis as an underlying cause of rapid neurological deterioration in a patient with a history of psychiatric disorder: Clinical case report.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Mar 01, 2025 Tuberculous meningitis (TBM), the least common of extrapulmonary tuberculosis presentations, one of the most severe. Highly prevalent in immunosuppressed individuals it is associated with high ... Read more
Mortality in chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Mar 01, 2025 Despite antifungal treatment, chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate rates of ... Read more
Utility of RAPID score in parapneumonic effusion or empyema: A prospective study at a tertiary centre.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Mar 01, 2025 In this study we evaluated the utility of RAPID score in Parapneumonic effusion and empyema. Both of which are most common causes of exudative pleural ... Read more
Alterations of white matter integrity in patients with intracranial tuberculosis: A tract-based spatial statistics study.
Tuberculosis Literature
Publication date: Feb 25, 2025 Intracranial tuberculosis has high mortality and morbidity. Its physiopathologic mechanism, especially neurocognitive mechanism, remains unclear, and there are few studies on white matter in such ... Read more