A Rare Manifestation of Tuberculosis Presenting in the United States

A 64-year-old Bangladeshi female presented to her primary care physician with a tender right breast lump that had been present for 4-5 days along with subjective fevers and malaise. Initial biopsy revealed granulomas, but Ziehl-Neelsen and Gram stain were negative for TB so antibiotics were prescrib...

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Autores principales: Bhatty, Osman, Waters, David, Wilka, Nicholas, Samuel, Shradha, Horne, John, Vivekanandan, Renuga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5214670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28101386
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8216040
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author Bhatty, Osman
Waters, David
Wilka, Nicholas
Samuel, Shradha
Horne, John
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description A 64-year-old Bangladeshi female presented to her primary care physician with a tender right breast lump that had been present for 4-5 days along with subjective fevers and malaise. Initial biopsy revealed granulomas, but Ziehl-Neelsen and Gram stain were negative for TB so antibiotics were prescribed for abscess until culture came positive for tuberculosis. She was started on triple therapy for extrapulmonary tuberculosis, an exceedingly rare presentation that requires high clinical suspicion in the Western world.
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spelling pubmed-52146702017-01-18 A Rare Manifestation of Tuberculosis Presenting in the United States Bhatty, Osman Waters, David Wilka, Nicholas Samuel, Shradha Horne, John Vivekanandan, Renuga Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A 64-year-old Bangladeshi female presented to her primary care physician with a tender right breast lump that had been present for 4-5 days along with subjective fevers and malaise. Initial biopsy revealed granulomas, but Ziehl-Neelsen and Gram stain were negative for TB so antibiotics were prescribed for abscess until culture came positive for tuberculosis. She was started on triple therapy for extrapulmonary tuberculosis, an exceedingly rare presentation that requires high clinical suspicion in the Western world. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5214670/ /pubmed/28101386 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8216040 Text en Copyright © 2016 Osman Bhatty et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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