Differentiating intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease: a diagnostic challenge

MA Almadi, S Ghosh, AM Aljebreen - Official journal of the …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
With the changing epidemiology of Crohn's disease (CD) and intestinal tuberculosis (ITB),
we are in an era where the difficulty facing physicians in discriminating between the two …

Challenges and perspectives in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis

L Norbis, R Alagna, E Tortoli… - Expert review of anti …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) accounts for a significant proportion of tuberculosis
cases worldwide. Nevertheless, the diagnosis is often delayed or even missed due to …

Detecting human bacterial pathogens in wastewater treatment plants by a high-throughput shotgun sequencing technique

L Cai, T Zhang - Environmental science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Human pathogens are one of the major threats to global public health. Wastewater treatment
plants (WWTPs) serve as city guts to receive and digest various human pathogens. Several …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiation of Crohn's disease from intestinal tuberculosis in India in 2010

AB Pulimood, DN Amarapurkar, U Ghoshal… - World journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Differentiating intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease (CD) is an important clinical
challenge of considerable therapeutic significance. The problem is of greatest magnitude in …

The diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease in populations with high‐risk rates for tuberculosis

D Epstein, G Watermeyer… - Alimentary pharmacology & …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Background Distinguishing Crohn's disease from intestinal tuberculosis in
endemic areas is challenging as both conditions have overlapping clinical, radiological …

Mechanical disruption of lysis-resistant bacterial cells by use of a miniature, low-power, disposable device

PE Vandeventer, KM Weigel, J Salazar… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular detection of microorganisms requires microbial cell disruption to release nucleic
acids. Sensitive detection of thick-walled microorganisms such as Bacillus spores and …

Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis through the detection of mycobacterial DNA in urine by nucleic acid amplification methods

C Green, JF Huggett, E Talbot, P Mwaba… - The Lancet infectious …, 2009 - thelancet.com
Tuberculosis kills over 1· 7 million people worldwide every year and nearly 40% of patients
with active tuberculosis remain undiagnosed because of the poor sensitivity of the current …

Meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for abdominal tuberculosis

Y Shen, L Fang, B Ye, G Yu - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is a severe extrapulmonary TB, which can lead to
serious complications. Early diagnosis and treatment are very important for the prognosis …

The diagnostic value of polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to distinguish intestinal tuberculosis from crohn's disease: A meta-analysis

T Jin, B Fei, Y Zhang, X He - Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Materials and Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Science Direct,
and the Cochrane Library for eligible studies, and nine articles with 12 groups of data were …

Differentiation of Crohn's disease from intestinal tuberculosis by clinical and CT enterographic models

XS Zhao, ZT Wang, ZY Wu, QH Yin… - Inflammatory Bowel …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background Crohn's disease (CD) and intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) have similar clinical,
radiological, and endoscopic features. The objective of our study was to investigate the …