| Literature DB >> 22935576 |
David A Barr1, Ashley M Whittington, Beth White, Benjamin Patterson, Robert N Davidson.
Abstract
We describe five individuals in whom extra-pulmonary tuberculosis appeared to localise at a site of previous blunt injury. We review other similar case reports where preceding trauma was blunt and non-penetrating, and discuss a possible mechanism involving transport of mycobacteria in monocytes to sites of injury during "latent" tuberculosis infection. This challenges the conventional model proposed for mycobacteria dissemination in tuberculosis disease.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22935576 DOI： 10.1016/j.jinf.2012.08.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect ISSN： 0163-4453 Impact factor: 6.072