Guangzhou Laboratory, a key State facility focused on studying respiratory diseases, is developing a vaccine that could ...

1. Myth: TB affects only the lungs. Fact: This is false. While pulmonary tuberculosis is common, extrapulmonary tuberculosis ...

Tuberculosis, an ongoing pandemic, highlights and exacerbates global disparities. With the prevailing model of standardised treatment in vertical health programmes, it is unsurprising that ...

India accounts for 30% of the global TB burden and 62% of multidrug-resistant cases. Despite a 17.7% reduction in incidence ...

Conclusions: TB is still a major public health problem in the world, and there is a rising tendency of extrapulmonary TB incidences in the developed countries. Because of the high mortality and ...

Peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is a form of extrapulmonary TB that primarily affects areas such as the omentum, liver, ...

The treatment of TB involves a combination of several antibiotics. These are aimed at reducing the risk of transmission, ...

tuberculosis often manifests as extrapulmonary or disseminated disease Screen patients for risk factors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and test them for infection before initiating ...

According to health experts, Pune city has reported a rising trend of Extra-Pulmonary TB (EPTB) cases. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) this year has reported 4,416 TB cases and 78 deaths in ...