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PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 8   Mycobacterial Diseases

165 Tuberculosis
Mario C. Raviglione / Richard J. O′Brien

Figure 165-1  Acid-fast bacillus smear showing M. tuberculosis bacilli. (Courtesy of the CDC, Atlanta.)
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Figure 165-2  Estimated tuberculosis incidence rates (per 100,000 population) in 2008. The designations employed and the presentation of material on this map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the WHO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city, or area or of its authorities or concerning the...
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Figure 165-3  Estimated numbers of tuberculosis-related deaths in 2008. (See disclaimer in Fig. 165-2. Courtesy of the Stop TB Department, WHO; with permission.)
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Figure 165-4  Chest radiograph showing bilateral miliary (millet-sized) infiltrates in a child. (Courtesy of Prof. Robert Gie, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; with permission.)
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Figure 165-5  Chest radiograph showing a right-upper-lobe infiltrate and a cavity with an air-fluid level in a patient with active tuberculosis. (Courtesy of Dr. Andrea Gori, Department of Infectious Diseases, S. Paolo University Hospital, Milan, Italy; with permission.)
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Figure 165-6  CT scan showing a large cavity in the right lung of a patient with active tuberculosis. (Courtesy of Dr. Enrico Girardi, National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Spallanzani Hospital, Rome, Italy; with permission.)
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Figure 165-7  MRI of culture-confirmed renal tuberculosis. T2-weighted coronary plane: coronal sections showing several renal lesions in both the cortical and the medullary tissues of the right kidney. (Courtesy of Dr. Alberto Matteelli, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Brescia, Italy; with permission.)
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Figure 165-8  CT scan demonstrating destruction of the right pedicle of T10 due to Pott's disease. The patient, a 70-year-old Asian woman, presented with back pain and weight loss and had biopsy-proven tuberculosis. (Courtesy of Charles L. Daley, MD, University of California, San Francisco; with permission.)
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Figure 165-9  Percentage of new tuberculosis cases with multidrug resistance in all countries surveyed by the WHO/Union Global Drug Resistance Surveillance Project during 1994–2008. (See disclaimer in Fig. 165-2. Courtesy of the Stop TB Department, WHO; with...
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