Meningitis and intracranial tuberculoma are types of tuberculosis (TB) infection of the central nervous system (CNS). These types of infections are seen in regions where the incidence of tuberculosis ...

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DURING the five-year period 1947–1951, 40 cases of tuberculous meningitis in children were treated with antibiotics at the North Reading State Sanatorium. This institution has been designated as a ...

Researchers from the Netherlands have conducted the first study globally to show that intensified antibiotic treatment can improve the prognosis of patients with tuberculous (TB) meningitis, the most ...

European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2003), pp. 337-343 (7 pages) A retrospective study was performed to assess the epidemiology, diagnosis, clinic, and laboratory of the patients with ...

In an HIV-positive population, the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay detected tuberculous meningitis with higher sensitivity than the older Xpert assay and a mycobacterial growth indicator tube culture, ...

A review update has been released to evaluate the effects of corticosteroids being used alongside anti-tuberculosis medication to treat people suffering from tuberculous meningitis Tuberculous ...

The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) have carried out a review update to evaluate the effects of corticosteroids being used alongside anti-tuberculosis medication to treat people suffering ...

Background. The role of the new Myocbacterium tuberculosis-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT) assay for diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) has not yet been fully assessed. Here ...

Radboudumc researchers Kirsten van Abeelen, Edwin Ardiansyah, Sofiati Dian, Vinod Kumar, Reinout van Crevel and Arjan van Laarhoven used metabolomics to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from ...