Mumbai, India: Tuberculosis mimics breast cancer in women and pelvic infections are becoming a major cause of infertility

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http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/...-JJ-hospital-doctors/articleshow/50538652.cms

[h=1]Rare TB of breast stumps KEM, JJ hospital doctors[/h]

By Lata Mishra, Mumbai Mirror | Jan 12, 2016, 12.00 AM IST
Doctors suspect that it is often misdiagnosed as cancer; also say genital TB causes infertility.

In an alarming development, doctors at the civic-run KEM Hospital have found 18 women being infected with a deadly strain of the tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in their breasts. All this while lumps in the breasts were largely associated with cancer. The 18 women, aged between 20 and 40, were found to be infected with TB in the breasts after the hospital conducted tests on 106 women, who had complained of lumps in the breasts.
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The JJ Hospital study, conducted by the gynaecology department, which focused on TB in the genital tract, found that it was a major cause of infertility for women.

Here, fluid was extracted from the pelvic and uterine cavity and endometrium cell of women and sent for PCR testing. The study revealed that in the last two years, 35% of women who visited JJ for infertility treatment had TB of the genital tract....

Up from 10% five years ago.