Abstract

VASQUEZ MICHEL, ANETH  and  CHIPANA CORTEZ, VERONICA. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: Brief General Review and New Diagnosis Alternatives. Rev.Cs.Farm. y Bioq [online]. 2016, vol.4, n.2, pp.71-79. ISSN 2310-0265.

Abstract Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) con-stitute 10-20% of theTB sufferers immu-nocompetent patients , this frequency is greatly increased in people who carry some degree of immunodeficiency. TB-HIV co-infection patients who are severe-ly immunocompromised may have extrapulmonary sites by up to 60% of cases. It is understood as extrapulmonary tuberculosis a Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in any location outside the lung: Nodal, urogenital, osteoarticular and others. While always the initial fo-cus being the lung. The diagnosis of this type of tuberculosis is based on clinical and few methods that doesn't allow an accurate diagnosis because samples are usually paucibacillary. The diagnosis of this type of tuberculosis is based on clinical and few methods that allow rapid and accurate diagnosis because samples are usually paucibacil-lary. The treatment of extrapulmonary tuberculosis is only different for certain special situations such as meningeal tuberculosis, although it is very rare to find drug-resistant tuberculosis extrapulmonary some cases to be argued in this article was. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is often associated with diseases that cause dis-order in the immune system, the principal of these is HIV in our midst which it was found that the incidence of this dis-ease increases with age. An alternative diagnosis is the MODS test (microscopic observation drug susceptibility) based on the observation of the development of early cords, feature developed only by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, they are visualized with an inverted microscope, this essay offers a possible solution to the problem of de-lays and unreliability in the tradition-al methods of microbiological culture.

Keywords : Tuberculosis; extrapulmonary Tuberculosis; drug resistant tuberculosis; MODS assay; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; VIH.

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