Jamshed Bomanji, Rajnish Sharma, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sanjay Gambhir et al.
Background A large proportion of the huge global burden of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases are treated empirically without accurate definition of disease sites and extent of multi-organ disease involvement. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using 2-deoxy-2-(fluorine-18) fluoro- d -...
Jamshed Bomanji, Rajnish Sharma, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Sanjay Gambhir et al.
Background Initial studies of tuberculosis (TB) in macaques and humans using 18 F-FDG positron emission tomography (PET) imaging as a research tool suggest its usefulness in localising disease sites and as a clinical biomarker. Sequential serial scans in patients with extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) could ...
Simon Tiberi, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Jeremiah Chakaya, Tereza Kaesava et al.
World TB Day falls on March 24th each year, and it commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (WHO, 2020aWHO World tuberculosis day.2020https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/03/24/defaul...