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Tuberculosis
New findings reported from J.C. Verhave and co-authors describe advances in tuberculosis
April 8th, 2008
"Reactivation of tuberculosis is a severe side effect of anti-TNF treatment. Especially extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis may occur, which are difficult to diagnose," investigators in Tilburg, Netherlands report. "The diagnosis may be obtained by a thorough search for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We describe two patients who developed tuberculous peritonitis after infliximab therapy that was prescribed for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. These cases illustrate that tuberculous peritonitis has a nonspecific clinical manifestation and that Mycobacteria can be difficult to find in ascites fluid. For this reason, tuberculostatic therapy has to be started in case of...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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