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Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of illness and death, resulting in infection transmission in the autopsy room. Our objective in this study was to estimate the prevalence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis among forensic autopsies in a tertiary care hospital in South India.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Material and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We identified positive TB cases from acid-fast bacteria staining and culture (Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube and Lowenstein\u2013Jensen medium) out of 380 autopsy cases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The prevalence of tuberculosis was 2.4% (n = 9), among which 2.1% of cases were positive for only pulmonary tuberculosis (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 8), and 0.3% of cases had both pulmonary and extrapulmonary involvement (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 1). In the bivariate analysis of TB cases, sex, occupation, family history of TB, habit of smoking, BCG vaccine scar, period of hospital stay, and cause of death were potentially significant.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The prevalence of TB in forensic autopsy cases were similar to forensic autopsy-based studies, and it was less as compared to the prevalence of TB in the general population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_1412_23","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,22]],"date-time":"2024-04-22T08:02:15Z","timestamp":1713772935000},"page":"1434-1439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The prevalence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in forensic autopsies in a teaching hospital in South India"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Ajoy Kumar","family":"Ghosh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vinod Ashok","family":"Chaudhari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Noyal Mariya","family":"Joseph","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kusa Kumar","family":"Shaha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"R1-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1261","DOI":"10.1099\/jmm.0.000171","article-title":"Mycobacterium tuberculosis:Ecology and evolution of a human bacterium","volume":"64","author":"Banuls","year":"2015","journal-title":"J Med Microbiol"},{"key":"R3-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"253","DOI":"10.1097\/00000433-199309000-00016","article-title":"The high risk autopsy. 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