Essays on Tuberculosis

Saudi Arabia faces a change in the pattern of diseases from simple infectious diseases where the management is low cost to more complicated diseases where management entails high cost and advanced technology. The worry of facing those diseases is causing severe pressure on individuals and...

Tubercular prostatitis and tuberculous orchitis are uncommon manifestations of genitourinary tuberculosis. Rectourethral fistula is also an uncommon condition. The most common site of occurrence is the prostaticurethra, in which a communication develops with the rectum. The common causes are surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer....

Pulmonary tuberculosis is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with approximately a third of the world’s population latently infected. This poses a serious health threat because about 10% of the infected individuals develop active disease. Pulmonary tuberculosis refers to any bacteriologically confirmed or clinically...

Tuberculosis is still leading the number of deaths caused by infectious disease. The emergence of MDR and TDR strains and co-infection with HIV/AIDS has greatly exacerbated the already severe situation. Surprsingly, M. tb lacks the classical virulence factors used by other pathogens like capsule to...

Tuberculosis is an irresistible, powerful ailment, on account of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that has reliably been an unending test through the range of humankind’s history, in light of its genuine social implications. It has been guessed that the sort Mycobacterium started more than 150 million years...

Solitary and multiple intracranial ring enhancing lesions are frequent diagnostic conundrum faced by radiologists. The differentials are very wide and include both neoplastic and non-neoplastic causes. In developing countries tuberculomas and NCC make up for majority of infectious cause [Shetty G]. Tuberculomas are caused by...