MANY authors 1–5 reporting on disseminated pulmonary calcification have suggested that this entity represented healed miliary tuberculosis even though a history suggestive of acute miliary ...

Japan's BCG vaccination rate is nearly 100%. Every infant between 5 and 8 months of age receives the unique vaccination (the ...

To the Editor: In spite of the many advances made in the control of tuberculosis, acute miliary tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis are by no means rare. During the two years 1960 and 1961 a total ...

Miliary tuberculosis is a severe manifestation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection characterised by haematogenous dissemination and the appearance of innumerable tiny nodules in multiple organs.

An Asian woman who immigrated to this country was diagnosed with miliary pulmonary TB per lung biopsy that showed a caseating granuloma. Both her purified protein derivative test and sputum culture ...

Although tuberculosis rates in the U.S. have declined since the early 20th century, TB remains a persistent public health concern. TB spreads primarily through prolonged exposure to droplets in ...