Krishan B Kumar's Articles in Tuberculosis Show All|Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest What Are The Reasons For Ineffective Control Of Tuberculosis? The warning signal that if a person has a cough for more than 14 days, with fever, loss of appetite and weight, he must report to his physician for check-up and tests, for the inclusion/ exclusion of tuberculosis, is hardly followed, and, even the symptoms are not known to all. The longer the disease remains undiagnosed, the more difficult it becomes to eradicate the infection. Even when it remains asymptomatic for sometime in many of the cases, when it presents itself, there... What Is Tuberculous Meningitis? Meninges, i.e. thin layers/membranes (3 in number, named from outside to inside, (i) the dura mater, (ii) the arachnoid mater and (iii) the pia mater) covering the brain may also be involved as a result of tuberculosis, and the disease is called tuberculous meningitis. In this case, the infection spreads from the brain to the meninges. Initially, a slow-growing tuberculous lesion called 'tuberculoma' develops in the brain, adjacent to the meninges, which ruptures in the subar... Vaccination Of The Newborn And Tuberculosis Vaccine against tuberculosis, known as Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) discovered by two French scientists, Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin in 1922, has got its own limitations, and its efficacy is highly variable. Still the vaccine is recommended for administration to all newborn to protect them against pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The newborn should not be denied this vaccination. If it is ignored, and the child is faced with a serious tuberculous infectio...

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