The U.S. House on Monday unanimously adopted legislation prompted by the death last year of a 57-year-old northern Michigan ...

The exact cause of CRMO remains unknown. The condition doesn’t involve any bacterial infections or other understood causes that would naturally trigger an immune response. There does seem to be ...

In this work, authors report on the PET-CT outcomes from the use of adjunctive statin therapy, rosuvastatin, in the intensive phase of tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Rosuvastatin had no impact on ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis in three Nunavut communities is ongoing, in some cases, years later, according to the territory's Department of Health. The department declared an outbreak in ...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent. In China the most common extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) is pleural tuberculosis (PLTB). An important ...

This is a comprehensive table of Infectious Diseases ICD-10 codes used by researchers and healthcare professionals and personnel – nurses, medical coders, physicians, et al. This table has been ...

Purpose: To analyze the feasibility and effectiveness of bacterial culture in negative pressure wound drainage (NPWD) fluid in patients with Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis (PVO). Methods: A ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne bacterial infection caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily affects the lungs, although other organs and tissues may be involved. While ...

How Is Latent TB Treated? If you have become infected with TB, but do not have the active TB disease you should get preventive therapy. This treatment kills germs that could cause problems if the ...