Open AccessA clinicoepidemiological study of 50 cases of cutaneous tuberculosis in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pokhara, Nepal
Author(s) -
Binayak Chandra Dwari,
Arnab Ghosh,
Raju Paudel,
PV Kishore
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.70670
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , cutaneous tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , cutis , mantoux test , tertiary care , dermatology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , sputum , pulmonary tuberculosis , surgery , pathology , tuberculin , physics , optics
Cutaneous tuberculosis (TB) is essentially an invasion of the skin by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacteria that causes pulmonary tuberculosis.