Abstract Despite the World Health Organization's declaration that the spread of tuberculosis
is a global emergency and despite the implementation of strong tuberculosis-control …

Background The global population is ageing quickly and our understanding of age-related
changes in the immune system suggest that the elderly will have less immunological …

Abstract Knowledge that older people are vulnerable to develop tuberculosis is rarely
considered in developing country settings. According to 2010 Global Burden of Disease …

Tuberculosis ranges among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A
diagnostic approach to a patient with possible tuberculosis includes a detailed medical …

This review on pulmonary tuberculosis includes an introduction that describes how the lung
is the portal of entry for the tuberculosis bacilli to enter the body and then spread to the rest …

Tuberculosis (TB) in the elderly (> 65 years old) has increasingly become a global health
problem. It has long been recognized that older people are vulnerable to developing …

Atypical radiologic images of pulmonary tuberculosis are common in elderly and in diabetic
patients. To investigate the relationship of chest radiographic findings of tuberculosis to age …

SETTING: Comparative studies of pulmonary tuberculosis images in diabetics have yielded
conflicting results. OBJECTIVE: To assess radiological images of pulmonary tuberculosis in …

The burden of childhood tuberculosis (TB) reflects recent transmission within a community
and the level of TB control achieved within the adult (maintenance host) population …

Tuberculosis (TB) can attack people of any sex, age, or socioeconomic class. In reality, TB is
likely to claim its greatest toll from certain strata of the population, and it is important to …