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A 12-year-old girl with latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and currently receiving prophylaxis with isoniazid presented with nausea, vomiting and increasing frontal headache. Toxicity to the anti-tuberculosis drug was suspected, but her symptoms persisted after isoniazid withdrawal. A
BACKGROUND
The frequency of isoniazid hepatotoxicity is low in children receiving isoniazid therapy for latent tuberculosis infection. However, isoniazid hepatotoxicity may cause liver failure and death. We evaluated children who developed isoniazid hepatotoxicity to determine demographic and
OBJECTIVE
To assess the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and association with drug induced liver injury (DILI) in patients undergoing anti-tuberculosis (TB) therapy.
METHODS
Four hundred and twenty nine patients with newly diagnosed TB - either active
BACKGROUND
Tuberculosis in Europe is a health public problem, which has increased constantly over the last few decades. The most common clinical manifestation of tuberculosis is pulmonary. The diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis can be challenging and clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal
Objective: We aimed to describe a case study of tuberculous meningitis in a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS) receiving fingolimod.
Case report: A-Thirty-five-year-old woman