Individuals with cavitary lesions in their lungs or positive sputum smears typically release more bacteria when coughing, making them more infectious. Absence of treatment: People with active TB ...

The most common sites of extrathoracic TB were peripheral lymphadenopathy ... were infiltrates (34%), lymphadenopathy (27%), cavitary lesions (26%), pleural effusions (19%) and miliary disease ...

The investigators also found that the majority of TB drugs showed poor penetration into the cavitary lesions, leading to inadequate drug levels at the site of disease and increased risk of ...

A study in Nature Communications reveals, for the first time, how the transcriptomic profile of human tuberculosis lung ...

Cavitary lesions observed in three of the patients ... in the fourth case apparently associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis. A possible relation between infection with Sporotrichum ...

THE therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis has progressed markedly ... pulmonary resection is frequently required for persistent cavitary lesions. Rest and chemotherapy, with and without temporary ...

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like tha ...

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like tha ...

"Successful TB treatment and prevention requires ongoing ... including a severely ill young adult with pulmonary cavitary lesions, who had been symptomatic since September 2021.