infectious diseases
Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis (TB)
Gastrointestinal tuberculosis
Because the entire gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa resists TB invasion, infection requires prolonged exposure and enormous inocula. It is very unusual in countries where bovine TB is rare (eg, because of milk pasteurization and routine TB testing of cattle). –contaminated dairy products; primary lesions may also occur in the small bowel. Intestinal invasion generally causes hyperplasia and an Overview of Inflammatory Bowel Disease with pain, diarrhea, obstruction, and hematochezia. It may also mimic 