Skeletal Tuberculosis affects bones and joints. Learn more about what causes this disease, what to expect if you have it, and more. ... For bone or joint tuberculosis, ...

Although prosthetic joint infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis are rare, they may occur in immunocompromised patients or in people from regions where tuberculosis is endemic ...

Discussion. In 2020, the incidence of TB in Canada was 4.7 per 100 000 people, consistent with the previous 10 years.2 However, people born outside of Canada and Canadian-born Indigenous peoples are ...

Tuberculosis may be on the decline in the United States, but it's still a stubborn and deadly problem in South Texas — and in many other parts of the world, including Mexico. Last year, the U.S ...

Osteoarticular tuberculosis usually starts as osteomyelitis in the growth plates of bones, where the blood supply is best, and then spreads locally into the joint spaces.12 The diagnosis of ...

The Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the BTS (1998) and NICE (2006) guidelines recommended that TB cases should be managed by doctors with full training in and experience of the specialised care of ...

More than 20,000 activists, health experts and global leaders from nearly every nation gathered in Washington last month for the 19th International AIDS Conference.

EAGLE PASS — Fueled by growing fears of drug-resistant tuberculosis, health officials from Texas and Mexico said Wednesday they are launching new cooperative TB programs in the last two major ...

Now, a ten-year work plan to increase joint TB/HIV programmes in countries with a high burden of HIV-related TB has been published and is outlined in this month's issue.

Drug resistant TB compounds the problem and threatens to undermine years of progress in TB control efforts. In 2008, there were an estimated 440,000 cases of multi-drug resistant TB in 57 countries.