Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient

Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus is associated with a variety of infections which pose management difficulties. Herein, we report a case of diabetic patient who developed combined pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis. The case illustrates management of this rare co-infection which despite being pot...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Deepak, Chander, Jagdish, Janmeja, Ashok K., Katyal, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25624598
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.148452
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spelling pubmed-42989202015-01-26 Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient Aggarwal, Deepak Chander, Jagdish Janmeja, Ashok K. Katyal, Rahul Lung India Case Report Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus is associated with a variety of infections which pose management difficulties. Herein, we report a case of diabetic patient who developed combined pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis. The case illustrates management of this rare co-infection which despite being potentially fatal was treated successfully. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4298920/ /pubmed/25624598 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.148452 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aggarwal, Deepak
Chander, Jagdish
Janmeja, Ashok K.
Katyal, Rahul
Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title_full Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title_fullStr Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title_short Pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
title_sort pulmonary tuberculosis and mucormycosis co-infection in a diabetic patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4298920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25624598
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.148452
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