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Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case
Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease. It usually infects the lung, but dissemination to different organs results in a severe form of tuberculosis, i.e., disseminated tuberculosis. The situation becomes even more challenging when the infection is due to multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10394717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37539418 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41302 |
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description | Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease. It usually infects the lung, but dissemination to different organs results in a severe form of tuberculosis, i.e., disseminated tuberculosis. The situation becomes even more challenging when the infection is due to multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The present case is a very rare one where a 17-year-old Indian girl presented with headache, vomiting, cough with expectoration, abdominal pain, and a seizure. A diagnostic workup led to the diagnosis of primary disseminated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the lungs, brain, meninges, and abdomen. She has been prescribed an anti-tubercular regimen per the national guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-103947172023-08-03 Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case Yadav, Sankalp Cureus Internal Medicine Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease. It usually infects the lung, but dissemination to different organs results in a severe form of tuberculosis, i.e., disseminated tuberculosis. The situation becomes even more challenging when the infection is due to multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The present case is a very rare one where a 17-year-old Indian girl presented with headache, vomiting, cough with expectoration, abdominal pain, and a seizure. A diagnostic workup led to the diagnosis of primary disseminated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the lungs, brain, meninges, and abdomen. She has been prescribed an anti-tubercular regimen per the national guidelines. Cureus 2023-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10394717/ /pubmed/37539418 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41302 Text en Copyright © 2023, Yadav et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Yadav, Sankalp Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title | Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title_full | Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title_fullStr | Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title_short | Primary Disseminated Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis of the Lungs, Brain, Meninges, and Abdomen: The World’s First Case |
title_sort | primary disseminated multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the lungs, brain, meninges, and abdomen: the world’s first case |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10394717/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37539418 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41302 |
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