Relationship between neutrophil count in cerebrospinal fluid and cerebral infarct appearance in head MRI on tuberculous meningitis patients.

Objectives: To determine the relationship between neutrophils count in cerebrospinal fluid and cerebral infarction in head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on patients with tuberculous meningitis.

Methods: A diagnostic study was done on patients with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) who underwent head MRI examination and cerebrospinal fluid analysis at Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital from January 2015 to September 2016.

Disfiguring generalized verrucosis in an indonesian man with idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia.

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause a spectrum of clinical disease states, depending on the causative HPV and the characteristics of the infected host, especially the status of cell-mediated immunity. Generalized verrucosis is an unusual clinical presentation of a disseminated HPV infection associated with severe immunodeficiency status.

Observations: We present a case of extreme disfigurement associated with an HPV-2 (common wart virus) infection.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype is an independent risk factor for tuberculosis treatment failure in Indonesia.

Animal studies have shown that the globally emerging Beijing genotype strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are more virulent than other strains. We examined whether Beijing strains increase treatment failure in a prospective cohort study in Indonesia. Among 818 tuberculosis cases, positive sputum culture results after 6 months of treatment were more common among patients infected with Beijing strains (33.