[Is short-course therapy enough at drug-resistant tuberculosis?].

Introduction: Tuberculosis drug resistance can be assessed by physicians with different approaches on issues such as the choice of treatment protocol and duration of treatment.

Materials And Methods: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the treatment regimens and treatment results of patients with non multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) drug resistance implemented in different chest disease clinics in our hospital. The 167 culture-positive patients with nonMDR-TB drug resistance diagnosed between 2008-2010 were analyzed retrospectively.

Epidemiology and distribution of interstitial lung diseases in Turkey.

Introduction: There is very few data on the epidemiological features of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) in the literature. These studies on this subject suffer from limited number of patients.

Objective: The goal of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological features of ILD in Turkey.

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis with multiple organ involvement.

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis has been a challenging situation in the clinical practice with respect to appropriate clinical treatment and management of the disease. The likelihood of resistance development is known to be lower in lesions with lesser percentages of the bacterial population. The present paper was designed to present a rare case of pulmonary multidrug resistant tuberculosis with extrapulmonary involvement to emphasize the consideration of genital tuberculosis with possible infertility in patients admitting with a scrotal mass.