**3.2 Tuberculosis of the spinal central nervous system**


Classically, the onset in TBM is insidious (for several weeks), but it can be fulminant in certain cases. A more rapid progression of the disease may occur in young infants in whom symptoms develop only a few days before the onset of acute hydrocephalus, cerebral infarction or seizures.

Clinical manifestations can be divided into three stages, and each stage lasts about 1 week.
