In part 2 of this interview, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, highlights the need for prolonged antibiotics and strong public health measures to combat tuberculosis (TB) at both the individual and population ...

In 2020-2021, a mysterious skin disease affected fishermen in Senegal. High levels of Portimine A toxin, produced by the ...

However, most people get infected with TB don’t get sick, according to NCDHSS. That’s because their bodies can fight the ...

During a TB outbreak, public workers develop lists of all close contacts of people infected and arrange them for testing, which can be done through a skin or blood test, according to William Schaffner ...

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the ...

Keywords for retrieval were "tuberculous meningitis" or "miliary tuberculosis" or "bacillus Calmette-Guérin" or "tuberculosis" and "cost-effectiveness" or "cost-benefit" or "cost-utility" or ...

From cleansers and moisturizers, to serums and exfoliants, there’s no shortage of skin care products on the market. But with the sheer number of products out there — not to mention the various ...

ABSTRACT: Peritoneal tuberculosis is the most common digestive location of ... and an elevated sedimentation rate was observed in 74% of cases. The tuberculin skin test returned positive in 50% of ...

It may sound like a disease of the past, but tuberculosis, or TB, is still a real concern today. And as the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words ...

During 1993 through 2010, there were 308,740 cases of tuberculosis reported in the ... persons with HIV had a negative TST. Persons with miliary disease and combined pulmonary and extrapulmonary ...