Puducherry’s ten medical colleges are emerging as the driving force behind the Union Territory’s TB elimination fight, contributing to more than 50 per cent of TB notifications and participating in ...

Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...

Tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs (pulmonary TB), but can invade other body systems (extrapulmonary TB), including the kidneys, spine, brain, and lymph nodes.

The conventional six-month anti-TB treatment is started for extrapulmonary T.B. as well, after diagnosis. In conditions such as T.B. of meninges or brain or bone, treatment can be extended up to 9 ...

Testing for TB can take a range of forms, including chest x-rays, sputum cultures, molecular testing, screening for symptoms, and skin or blood tests to measure dormant TB infection (TBI).

Breakthrough approach for diagnosing TB could significantly improve detection Date: April 23, 2025 Source: Queen Mary University of London Summary: A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening ...

Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Using the Xpert® MTB/RIF Assay Stephen D Lawn; Alimuddin I Zumla Disclosures Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2012;10 (6):631-635.

Pune: Of the 2,30,328 cases of tuberculosis the state recorded last year, 36% — or more than 82,000 people — had a more worrying type of TB known as extrapulmonary TB (EPTB), an analysis of ...

Extrapulmonary TB: Most forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (affecting areas outside the lungs) are minimally contagious or non-contagious. The exception is laryngeal TB, which can be highly ...

TB most commonly affects the lungs, when it is called pulmonary tuberculosis, but also can involve any other organ of the body in which case it is called extra-pulmonary tuberculosis.

Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is emerging as a growing concern for the medical community in Himachal Pradesh, affecting organs beyond the lungs, including the lymph nodes, pleura, bones ...