Tuberculous Meningitis
"Tuberculous Meningitis at a Large Inner-City Medical Center."
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 21st, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of the Medical Sciences, "Tuberculosis in the United States has become primarily an inner-city disease. We examined the epidemiology of culture-confirmed tuberculous meningitis among patients cared for at an urban public hospital in Atlanta. During an 11.5-year period (January 1984-June 1995) cerebrospinal fluid cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis were positive in 34 patients, accounting for 1.5% of all culture-confirmed tuberculosis cases. All patients were born in the United States, 31 (91%) were black, 16 (47%) of 34 were human immunodeficiency virus (HDV) seropositive, 9 (26.5%) were HIV...
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