Two men developed life-threatening parasitic worm infections after receiving kidneys from the same donor, exposing rare but ...

A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...

Prayagraj: World Doctors' Day will be observed on Tuesday, July 1, under the theme ‘Behind the Mask, Who Heals the Healers' - a reflection on the ment.

ABSTRACT. Background: Tuberculosis remains a major global health concern and a leading cause of mortality.In Morocco, various forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis are prevalent. This systematic review ...

Post-transplant TB often occurs within the first few years of receipt of a renal allograft but a 27-year-old man presents with isolated skin ulcers from Mycobacterium TB 12 years post-transplantation.

Discussion of Diagnosis . Tuberculosis is a serious opportunistic infection in renal transplant recipients. It can arise from transmission by the donor kidney (accounting for <5% of tuberculosis ...

The package of interventions consisting of pre-test and post-test tuberculosis counselling with conditional cash transfers significantly reduced the risk of unsuccessful tuberculosis patient outcomes, ...

Dr. Aileen Marty, Infectious Disease Specialist and Professor at Florida International University, joins Bob Sirott to talk about the latest health news. Dr. Marty shares a study that was done on ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to tuberculosis (TB) care and service delivery in 2020, setting back progress in the fight against TB by several years. As newer COVID-19 ...

Key takeaways: A four-drug combination administered early may be a better strategy for treating diabetic kidney disease than the usual care. The GOLD-STANDARD trial is designed to test this ...

Between Jan 1, 2013 and Dec 31, 2020, we identified 44 536 first time kidney transplant recipients with Medicare as primary payer in the 6 months before and at transplantation. 24 192 patients were ...

Knowing whether Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacilli are released in infectious aerosols throughout disease, treatment, and recovery phases is fundamental to understanding tuberculosis (TB) ...