Background: Nigeria is one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the
world. TB associated inflammation is reported to be central to progression from latent TB to …

Abstract Background and Objectives: The need for additional markers for differential
diagnosis of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) and drug sensitive M. tb have …

Methods: The pattern of NO response in 140 patients with pulmonary TB, including 74 with
MDR-TB (1st group) and 66 without MDR-TB (2nd group) has been studied and compared …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the magnitude of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and nitric
oxide (NO) response in different categories of active tuberculosis (TB) patients by ex vivo …

Background: The pro‐inflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor (TNF)‐α and IL‐1α play
key roles in host defence against tuberculosis (TB) but there is little knowledge of their levels …

The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR–TB) and more recently,
extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB has intensified the need for studies aimed at identifying …

Objectives. Tuberculous lymphadenitis is the most common form of extrapulmonary
tuberculosis (TB) with a female and paediatric preponderance, postulated to be due to …

Background: Chronic inflammation, possibly exacerbated by cigarette smoking, is
considered to be the primary cause of pulmonary damage in patients with tuberculosis (TB) …

Background Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is one of the
top infectious killer diseases in the world. The emergence of drug-resistant MTB strains has …

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease which remains a global health problem till date. A
number of cytokine and chemokine have been reported to be associated with MTB …