Cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis with COVID-19 coinfection

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the healthcare system worldwide, leading to an approach favoring judicious resource allocation. A focus on resource preservation can result in anchoring bias and missed concurrent diagnosis. Coinfection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and severe acute respirator...

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Autores principales: Yousaf, Zohaib, Khan, Adeel A., Chaudhary, Haseeb A., Mushtaq, Kamran, Parengal, Jabeed, Aboukamar, Mohamad, Khan, Muhammad Umair, Mohamed, Mouhand F.H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7521360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33014710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00973
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Sumario:The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the healthcare system worldwide, leading to an approach favoring judicious resource allocation. A focus on resource preservation can result in anchoring bias and missed concurrent diagnosis. Coinfection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has implications beyond morbidity at the individual level and can lead to unintended TB exposure to others. We present six cases of COVID-19 with newly diagnosed cavitating pulmonary tuberculosis to highlight the significance of this phenomenon and favorable outcomes if recognized early.

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