[Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in children under 15 years].

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a widespread and increasingly important infectious disease. A third of the world-wide population is infected. Every year nine million cases occur in the world, one million of them appearing in children under 15 years old.

Cutaneous tuberculosis after mesotherapy: report of six cases.

Introduction: Cutaneous tuberculosis as a result of a needle injection is a rare event; it generally occurs among medical and laboratory personnel and among patients receiving percutaneous treatment.

Objective: Six patients are presented who developed cutaneous tuberculosis after mesotherapy cosmetic treatment.

Material And Methods: One to four months after injection of an unknown product as treatment for obesity and cellulites, five women and a man developed papules, nodules and drainage of wax like material at the inoculated sites; this was interpreted clinically as a non tuberculous mycobacterium infection.

[Surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to antituberculosis drugs].

Introduction: Tuberculosis is an important cause of disease and death worldwide. An estimated 8.8 million new cases occurred in 2005 with 1.

[Molecular identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria].

Introduction: Nontuberculous mycobacteria can be saprophytic, pathogenic or opportunistic. The most common diseases produced by these microorganisms are the post-surgical infections due to anesthetic procedures, infections associated with catheters, disseminated cutaneous diseases and pulmonary and central nervous system diseases that especially affect HIV patients. Identification of the nontuberculous mycobacteria can take several weeks and even then, differentiation of complex members is not possible.

[Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a review of 102 cases in Pereira, Colombia].

Introduction: Tuberculosis continues to be a serious public health problem worldwide. At the local institutional level, the magnitude of the problem must be assessed in terms of diagnosis efficiency and adequate use of resources.

Objective: to determine the disease focus and to summarize the epidemiologic, clinical, microbiologic, and diagnostic data, along with associated hospital costs in a third level public hospital.