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East Afr Med J. 2001 Apr;78(4):197-9.
Tuberculosis of the spine in Ilorin, Nigeria.
Solagberu BA, Ayorinde RO.
University of Iloin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.
BACKGROUND: Data on tuberculosis (TB) of the spine from Nigeria is scanty despite the endemicity of the disease. OBJECTIVE: To highlight hospital data on spinal tuberculosis. DESIGN: A ten-year retrospective study of records on spinal TB from the medical records, orthopaedic and medical wards was done. The clinical notes, radiographs and haematology results of the patients were analysed. SETTING: University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria. SUBJECTS: All patients treated for spinal TB in the hospital from January 1990 to December 1999 were studied. RESULTS: Fifty patients were seen, 24 males and 26 females, age range 1.5-70 years (mean 27.1 +/- 22.8 years). Peak prevalence (30%) was in the first decade. Twenty seven patients had complete clinical data in their case notes. Twelve patients had paraplegia and three had concomitant pulmonary TB. The lumbar spine was the commonest site of involvement. Two thirds (18 patients) had positive mantoux test. Twenty three patients had chemotherapy but a third was lost to follow up within two months. Twenty one patients (77.8%) had difficulty obtaining the prescribed drugs due to financial difficulties. No patient had surgical intervention. CONCLUSION: Spinal TB is still a common disease in Nigeria with unacceptable laxity in control measures. There is need for patient health education, contact tracing, provision of free anti-TB drugs and a general improvement in the economy to reduce the prevalence of spinal TB in the country.
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Cent Afr J Med. 2000 Nov;46(11):287-92.
Tuberculosis in Ibadan, Nigeria--a 30 year review.
Nwachokor FN, Thomas JO.
Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
OBJECTIVES: Recent reports have indicated a re-emergence of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, particularly in the USA, where this re-emergence has been attributed mainly to immunosuppression by HIV. Information on the pattern and trend of TB is scarce in the developing countries, including Nigeria. This present study was set out to review the pattern of TB in the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, between 1966 to 1995 with emphasis on changing trend between two time periods: 1966 to 1980 and 1981 to 1995. DESIGN: A 30 year retrospective review of all cases of tuberculosis diagnosed from surgical pathology and autopsy in the Department of Pathology, UCH, Ibadan, between January 1966 and December 1995 was done. The age, sex, details of organ involvement and biopsy site of the cases were studied and the data obtained was tabulated and analysed statistically. RESULTS: Tuberculosis in this environment affects predominantly individuals below 40 years of age with peak age frequency between 21 to 30 year age range. More females are affected with TB with twice as many females as males being affected in the reproductive years. There were significant declines in tuberculous involvement of the female genital tract, bone and skin in the second period 1981 to 1995 compared to the first period 1966 to 1980. The frequency of miliary TB remained high in the second period. Deaths from tuberculosis were highest in the age group zero to 10 years, with deaths in all age groups being due to disseminated TB and TB meningitis. CONCLUSION: Socio-economic factors and poor health care facilities rather than HIV appear to be more important contributing factors to the gradual increase in the frequency of tuberculosis in the second period of this study.
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Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis. 2002 Mar;19(1):59-65.
Expression of sarcoidosis related genes in lung lavage cells.
Thonhofer R, Maercker C, Popper HH.
Laboratories for Molecular Cytogenetics, Environmental and Respiratory Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria.
BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous multiorgan disease of unknown cause. Some facts point to a genetically determined predisposition, like associations with certain Major Histocompatibility Antigens Class I- and II-types (MHC). Mycobacterial DNA has been found in about 30% of sarcoidosis patients within the granulomas, which has been interpreted as a probable trigger mechanism. METHODS: Cells from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of sarcoidosis patients were stimulated with dead Mycobacterium avium and gene expression was studied after six hours. Gene expression was profiled by hybridization to PCR filters (Human UniGene Set RZPD-1). To avoid the detection of effects related to secondary and tertiary inflammatory messages, we compared gene expression in sarcoidosis with that of tuberculosis and extrinsic allergic alveolitis. After normalization genes up- or downregulated for a factor of at least 1.8 were further analyzed. Genes differentially expressed in sarcoidosis as well as in tuberculosis or EAA, respectively, were subtracted. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Four different genes were exclusively upregulated in sarcoidosis: fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4), B-MYB, and two EST's. FABP4 has already been described in some autoimmune diseases, but its function in sarcoidosis is unknown. B-MYB is a potent growth factor for haematopoietic cells including lymphocytes. It might be one of the central genes upregulated in sarcoidosis and by that inducing clonal expansion of sarcoidosis-antigen primed T-helper-lymphocytes. Clonal selection of T-helper cells might be facilitated by c-Akt together with Tcl-1, both also upregulated in sarcoidosis. For the two ESTs neither function nor location is known.
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Epidemiol Infect. 2002 Apr;128(2):175-84.
The molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in inner London.
Hayward AC, Goss S, Drobniewski F, Saunders N, Shaw RJ, Goyal M, Swan A, Uttley A, Pozniak A, Grace-Parker J, Watson JM.
PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre-London/ University College London.
The study used DNA fingerprint typing (spoligotyping and Heminested-lnverse-PCR) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from all culture-confirmed inner London patients over a 12-month period to describe transmission. The methodology was evaluated by comparison with standard IS6110 typing and by examining its ability to identify known household clusters of cases. Isolates sharing indistinguishable typing patterns using both techniques were defined as clustered. Clusters were investigated to identify epidemiological links. The methodology showed good discriminatory power and identified known household clusters of cases. Of 694 culture-confirmed cases, 563 (81%) were typed. Eleven (2%) were due to laboratory cross-contamination and were excluded. Of the remaining 552 isolates 148 (27%) were clustered. Multivariate analysis indicated that clustering was more common in those with pulmonary smear positive disease (P < 0.02); those born in the United Kingdom (P < 0.0003) and in patients living in south London (P = 0.02). There was also a trend towards clustering being more common in those not known to have HIV infection (P = 0.051). The results suggest that in inner London, recent local transmission makes an important contribution to notification rates.
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Epidemiol Infect. 2002 Apr;128(2):337-42.
Pyrazinamide resistance associated with pncA gene mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Japan.
Endoh T, Yagihashi A, Uehara N, Kobayashi D, Tsuji N, Nakamura M, Hayashi S, Fujii N, Watanabe N.
Division of Laboratory Diagnosis, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Thirty Japanese clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were analysed by pyrazinamide susceptibility testing and pyrazinamidase assay, as well as polymerase chain reaction for single-strand conformational polymorphism and direct sequencing of the gene encoding pyrazinamidase (pncA). All sensitive isolates showed pyrazinamidase activity and a wild-type pncA gene, but three resistant isolates had pncA gene mutations and lacked pyrazinamidase activity. The latter isolates showed a minimum inhibitory concentration of at least 100 mg/l by the 7H10 agar proportion method and 400 mg/l by the 7H9 liquid medium method. Isolate 28 showed T-to-C change at position 11, leading to Leu4 --> Ser substitution; isolate 29 had an 8-bp deletion from position 382; and isolate 30 had A-to-C change at position 29, leading to Gln10 --> Pro substitution. The deletion has not been described previously. This is the first demonstration of pncA gene mutations in PZA-resistant M. tuberculosis strains isolated from Japanese patients.
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