Publications by authors named "Ylva Batshake"
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- A 37-year-old previously healthy man developed encephalitis after initially showing mild symptoms of mpox, including skin lesions and genital ulcers.
- Despite testing negative for the monkeypox virus in his cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), he showed signs of intrathecal antibody production.
- The case suggests that CNS involvement in mpox may not always lead to severe outcomes and highlights the importance of antibody detection in diagnosis when PCR testing is negative.
Background: Pregnancy has been associated with elevated incidence of tuberculosis (TB) disease. Since 2014, people living in Sweden with origin in TB-endemic countries have been offered screening for TB infection in antenatal care (ANC) using Quantiferon-TB assays. We assessed factors associated with TB infection in this population and determined the incidence of TB disease during pregnancy and postpartum periods with regard to ANC Quantiferon-TB results.
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