{"id":2489,"date":"2009-03-08T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/inftbc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:09:54","slug":"inftbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/inftbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Tuberculosis Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong> Definite diagnosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Clinical picture consistent with tuberculosis; bacteriologic confirmation (culture, gene probe\/NAA <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> +<\/span> AFB smear); histologic findings<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong> Probable diagnosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Clinical picture consistent with tuberculosis; exclusion of other diagnostic considerations; presence of highly specific tuberculosis (surrogate) marker<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong> Likely diagnosis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Clinical picture consistent with tuberculosis; exclusion of other diagnostic considerations; typical response to antituberculosis treatment (in absence of other treatment)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">NOTE. AFB, acid-fast bacilli; NAA, nucleic acid amplification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Glassroth J. Clinical considerations in designing trials of vaccines for tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Jun;30 Suppl 3:S229-32. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10875789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Mar 04, 2008<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[16,15,14,13,51,1344,1487],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infetious-disease","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-disease","tag-infectious","tag-tuberculosis"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}