Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a University Hospital in Spain

✍ Scribed by J. A. García-Rodriguez; J. E. Garcia Sanchez; A. C. Gomez Garcia; J. L. Muñoz Bellido

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 332 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00156821

✦ Synopsis

Pulmonary tuberculosis in Europe has been decreasing over the last decades. This study evaluates the current importance of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and its trend over the last 10 years. In a University Hospital in Spain, 20% of all bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis cases were extrapulmonary. The most frequent site was the urinary tract (73.5%). Ziehl-Neelsen staining was positive in 50.6% of the cases. Lowenstein-Jensen cultures became positive, on average, after 4.6 + 1.4 weeks. The proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis among the total number of tuberculosis cases has steadily increased trend over the period of observation.