PLoS ONE

Research Hotspot & Journal Scope - tuberculosis

In this study, we demonstrate that ungulate host species richness correlates with increased community competence to maintain and transmit pathogens of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) in game-managed areas in Mediterranean Spain.

Lupus vulgaris is the most common form of cutaneous tuberculosis which usually occurs in patients who have been previously sensitized to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Methods A Bayesian hierarchical model was developed for the 2011 National Tuberculosis Prevalence survey to estimate the differential effect of age, sex and geographic stratum on active TB prevalence; these estimates were then married with high-resolution geographic information system layers to project prevalence across Cambodia.

Mycobacterium bovis BCG is widely used as a vaccine against tuberculosis due to M.

There were no relationships between age, gender, nationality, residence, close contact with tuberculosis patients, recurrence of tuberculosis, positive human immunodeficiency virus status and clustered or non-clustered strain genotype.