However, if tuberculosis infected near the brain, such as in the meninges, it can cause tuberculous meningitis, which could perhaps contribute to mental illness.
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Childhood vaccination with Bacillus Calmette-Gu�rin has been reported to significantly reduce the rate of tuberculous meningitis, but its waning effectiveness in adulthood has prompted a search for a better vaccine.
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Tuberculous meningitis in children continues to be associated with a significant risk of death even with treatment ( 19 % ), and a significant proportion of the surviving children have ongoing neurological problems.
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For tuberculous meningitis, a brain infection that was once a scourge of infancy and even with today's powerful antibiotics can still be fatal, treatments to try included iodine and turpentine massaged into the skin.
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Tuberculous meningitis, which is meningitis caused by " Mycobacterium tuberculosis ", is more common in people from countries in which tuberculosis is endemic, but is also encountered in persons with immune problems, such as AIDS.
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Others have speculated that patients suffered from now easily identifiable conditions unrelated to psychoanalysis; for instance, Anna O . is thought to have suffered from an organic impairment such as tuberculous meningitis or temporal lobe epilepsy and not hysteria ( see modern interpretations ).
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In 1982, he contracted life-threatening tuberculous meningitis, and was told that he would never walk again, but went on to make a remarkable recovery and return to work a year and a half later to a star-studded career despite disabling and painful neurological sequelae resulting from his meningitis.
