Abdominal Tuberculosis -A Review

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that hasplagued mankind since Neolithic times (8000 BC). In addition to the review of key papers, we undertook searches of electronic databases. For PubMed, the search items were “abdominal tuberculosis� restricted to the past 25 years. “Gastrointestinal tuberculosis, tubercular ascites, serositis, iliocaecal tuberculosis terms were used for search items.�,abdominal tuberculosis and pathophysiology�, “tuberculosis of alimentary system and diagnosis�,“antuitubercular chemotherapy� were search items without a time restriction.