Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a resurgent disease in most regions of the world, infecting one-third of the world's population and having a multisystemic involvement. Incidence of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis has increased in the last few decades as a result of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection...

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Autores principales: Pereira, Aida, Miranda, Ana, Santo, Frederico E., Fernandes, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/618546
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author Pereira, Aida
Miranda, Ana
Santo, Frederico E.
Fernandes, Pedro
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description Tuberculosis is a resurgent disease in most regions of the world, infecting one-third of the world's population and having a multisystemic involvement. Incidence of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis has increased in the last few decades as a result of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. The authors report a clinical case of the rare concomitant cutaneous and skeletal tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient transferred from endemic area.
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spelling pubmed-44306402015-06-10 Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis Pereira, Aida Miranda, Ana Santo, Frederico E. Fernandes, Pedro Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Tuberculosis is a resurgent disease in most regions of the world, infecting one-third of the world's population and having a multisystemic involvement. Incidence of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis has increased in the last few decades as a result of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. The authors report a clinical case of the rare concomitant cutaneous and skeletal tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient transferred from endemic area. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4430640/ /pubmed/26064719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/618546 Text en Copyright © 2015 Aida Pereira et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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.
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Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title_full Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title_fullStr Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title_short Cutaneous and Skeletal Simultaneous Locations as a Rare Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis
title_sort cutaneous and skeletal simultaneous locations as a rare clinical presentation of tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4430640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/618546
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