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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Pathology Research International Volume 2011, Article ID 417635, 4 pages doi:10.4061/2011/417635 Clinical Study Screening for Tuberculosis and Its Histological Pattern in Patients with Enlarged Lymph Node Hussain Gad ElKarim Ahmed,1 Akram Saleh Nassar,2 and Ibrahim Ginawi3 1 Department of Histopathology and Cytology, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan 2 National Tuberculosis Center, Sana’a, Yemen 3 College of Medicine, University of Ha’il, Ha’il, Saudi Arabia Correspondence should be addressed to Hussain Gad ElKarim Ahmed, hussaingad1972@ Received 22 October 2010; Revised 15 February 2011; Accepted 10 March 2011 Academic Editor: S. Pervez Copyright © 2011 Hussain Gad ElKarim Ahmed et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Settings. Tuberculosis is a major health problem in the Republic of Yemen. Tuberculous lymphadenitis is one of the most common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Therefore, this retrospective descriptive study was conducted in Yemen to investigate the morphological pattern of tuberculous lymphadenitis, as well as to assess the reliability measures of (ZN) Ziehl-Neelsen and fluorescent methods in identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Methodology. One hundred lymph nodes tissue biopsies that were previously diagnosed by conventional histopathology as having tuberculous lymphadenitis were reinvestigated. Five micron in thickness sections were obtained from formalin-fixed paraffin wax processed tissues. The sections were stained using Haematoxylin and eosin (H E),