Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Concomitant leprosy and tuberculosis is reported infrequently. Literature suggests that the infrequent occurrence of both leprosy and tuberculosis is based on the transmission dynamics of both the infections. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed in patients be...

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Autores principales: Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T, Menezes, Ritesh G, Kishore, PV
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1936425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17615070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-43
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author Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T
Menezes, Ritesh G
Kishore, PV
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Kishore, PV
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description BACKGROUND: Concomitant leprosy and tuberculosis is reported infrequently. Literature suggests that the infrequent occurrence of both leprosy and tuberculosis is based on the transmission dynamics of both the infections. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed in patients being treated with glucocorticoids for complications of leprosy are reported. CONCLUSION: Clinicians should recognize corticosteroid treated leprosy patients as a population likely to develop concomitant tuberculosis.
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spelling pubmed-19364252007-08-01 Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T Menezes, Ritesh G Kishore, PV J Med Case Reports Case Report BACKGROUND: Concomitant leprosy and tuberculosis is reported infrequently. Literature suggests that the infrequent occurrence of both leprosy and tuberculosis is based on the transmission dynamics of both the infections. CASE PRESENTATION: Two cases of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed in patients being treated with glucocorticoids for complications of leprosy are reported. CONCLUSION: Clinicians should recognize corticosteroid treated leprosy patients as a population likely to develop concomitant tuberculosis. BioMed Central 2007-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1936425/ /pubmed/17615070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-43 Text en Copyright © 2007 Sreeramareddy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kishore, PV
Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title_full Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title_fullStr Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title_short Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
title_sort concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1936425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17615070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-43
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