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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that most often affects the lungs but can involve almost any organ of the body. The bacterium spreads through airborne droplets released when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks, and infection may remain latent for yea…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 14× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2642-9241 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that most often affects the lungs but can involve almost any organ of the body. The bacterium spreads through airborne droplets released when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks, and infection may remain latent for years before progressing to active, symptomatic disease. Pulmonary TB typically presents with persistent cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss, while extrapulmonary forms can affect the liver, intestines, peritoneum, lymph nodes, and other tissues. TB remains a major global health concern, with a disproportionate burden in low-income and resource-limited settings, and coinfection with HIV substantially worsens outcomes. Diagnosis relies on microbiological, molecular, and imaging methods, and standard treatment uses prolonged multidrug antibiotic regimens, although drug-resistant strains such as multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant TB complicate care. Within this respiratory-disease collection, the journal publishes research spanning several facets of tuberculosis, including rpoB gene mutations linked to rifampicin resistance in HIV-coinfected patients, unusual extrapulmonary presentations affecting the liver and gastrointestinal tract, national TB control programme performance, patient knowledge and awareness, novel imaging agents, nanoadjuvant vaccine development, and zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis infection, reflecting both clinical and laboratory perspectives on the disease.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2015

Pseudotumor Tuberculosis Of Liver: A Rare Entity

Soufi MehdiCorresponding author
Department of digestive Surgery, Faculty of medicine Oujda, University Mohammed first, Oujda -Morocco
Exact topic Spleen And Liver Research Cited by 1 doi:10.14302/issn.2578-2371.jslr-14-539
2018

Hepatic Tuberculosis of Pseudotumor Form

Meriam SabbahCorresponding author
Department of gastroenterology, Habib Thameur Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.
Exact topic Spleen And Liver Research Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2578-2371.jslr-18-1994

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 14 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Tuberculosis, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Respiratory Diseases (ISSN 2642-9241).

Journal editorial board
Jason Akulian · United States

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