© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health concern and its diagnosis is challenging due to the limitations in the specificity and sensitivity of the current diagnostic tests. ...

Background: There are several studies on the effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on clinical symptoms and radiological findings of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and bacteriological findings in pulmonary tuberculosis ...

CGD is a rare phagocytic disorder manifesting as recurrent, severe bacterial and fungal infections. We describe an Iranian family with eight children, of whom six, five males and one female were diagnosed with CGD resulting ...

Background: Relapse of tuberculosis (TB) may develop as the result of reactivation of the endogenous primary infection, or as a result of a exogenous reinfection. This survey evaluated the rate of reactivation versus ...

Disseminated BCG infection is a rare complication of vaccination that occurs in patients with impaired immunity. In recent years, a series of inherited disorders of the IL-12-IFN-γ axis have been described that predispose ...

Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease. Although the most affected patients are diagnosed in childhood, there are several reports of the disease presenting in adult patients. Here ...

Background: There are number of patients who are unable to expectorate sputum specimens. In this study, we used gastric lavage (GL) test for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in patients who were unable to produce sputum. ...

© 2014 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Drug-induced hepatitis (DIH) is one of the major complications among the treatment of patients with tuberculosis (TB); it might even be fatal. This study tries to address the recurrence ...

BACKGROUND: In this study, we intended to find the prevalence of nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM) among patients who are referred as suspected multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases to the only referral center ...