152 cases of tuberculosis in African Negro immigrants in a Parisian service of internal medicine
Piéron, R.; Blanchi, A.; Lesobre, B.; Mafart, Y.
La semaine des hopitaux organe fonde par l'Association d'enseignement medical des hopitaux de Paris 57(1-2): 5-15
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 6258238 Document Number: 178055
This study of 152 cases of tuberculosis in African Negro immigrants seen between 1972 and 1976 showed the predominance of especially pulmonary respiratory lesions and/or hilar ganglio-mediastinal lesions. The other lesions are frequent, i.e. the lesions of lymph nodes, bones, peritoneum, liver, pericardium ; the multiple lesions are likewise frequent. Smears and culture of sputum and/or biopsy of organs or tissues such as pleura, lymph node, liver and peritoneum are the diagnostic procedures. In spite of frequent resistance, treatment with isoniazid, rifampicin and ethambutol gave good results in high risk subjects, who are almost always allergic on arrival in France.