An empyema — a purulent collection within the pleural space, most commonly bacterial in origin — is tuberculous in roughly 9% of cases and fungal in about 3%; complications such as pneumothorax may ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality from a single infectious agent worldwide and continues to pose a major public health ...

A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine showed that pleural fluid total protein-to-adenosine deaminase (ADA ...