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Tuberculosis, Meningeal

Known as: tuberculosis meninges, TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS, meningitis tuberculous 
A form of bacterial meningitis caused by MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS or rarely MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS. The organism seeds the meninges and forms… 
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Central Nervous SystemIn BloodMeningesMicrobiological

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Tuberculosis, Central Nervous System

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Tuberculous Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients
Dick Menzies and colleagues report findings from a collaborative, individual patient-level meta-analysis of treatment outcomes… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Host Genotype-Specific Therapies Can Optimize the Inflammatory Response to Mycobacterial Infections
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
[Tuberculosis among health care workers].
The objective of this work was to address the problem of tuberculosis (TB) infection among Health Care Workers (HCW), based on an… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Emergence of new forms of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis bacilli: super extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or totally drug-resistant strains in iran.
BACKGROUND The study documented the emergence of new forms of resistant bacilli (totally drug-resistant [TDR] or super… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Use in routine clinical practice of two commercial blood tests for diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a prospective study
Review
2003
Review
2003
Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Diagnosis of adult tuberculous meningitis by use of clinical and laboratory features
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Cytokine production at the site of disease in human tuberculosis
Clinical and immunologic evidence suggests that tuberculous pleuritis provides a model to understand protective immune mechanisms… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The triad of neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease
We studied 38 patients with Lyme meningitis, a newly recognized spirochetal infection. The patients characteristically had… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
Neurologic manifestations in sarcoidosis: review of the literature, with a report of 23 cases.
Nervous system involvement by sarcoidosis has been considered rare, yet more than 400 cases have been reported. We present 23… 
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