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COVID-19 and Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Coinfection

The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was classified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. It is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus affects mainly the human respiratory system. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) is...

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Autores principales: Al Lawati, Redha, Al Busaidi, Nasser, Al Umairi, Rashid, Al Busaidy, Merah, Al Naabi, Hanan Hamed, Khamis, Faryal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631157
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.23
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author Al Lawati, Redha
Al Busaidi, Nasser
Al Umairi, Rashid
Al Busaidy, Merah
Al Naabi, Hanan Hamed
Khamis, Faryal
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description The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was classified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. It is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus affects mainly the human respiratory system. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) is another respiratory infection known to affect humans and may share joint clinical presentations and risk factors with COVID-19 infection. Therefore, clinicians must have a high index of suspicion that the two infections might coexist so that there is no delay in diagnosis and starting the appropriate treatment. There are few case reports about TB and COVID-19 coinfection. The first case report ever was from China and there have been a few others around the world. Here, we report two cases of coexisting COVID-19 and newly diagnosed pulmonary TB infection in Oman.
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spelling pubmed-84774392021-10-07 COVID-19 and Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Coinfection Al Lawati, Redha Al Busaidi, Nasser Al Umairi, Rashid Al Busaidy, Merah Al Naabi, Hanan Hamed Khamis, Faryal Oman Med J Case Reports The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was classified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. It is caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus affects mainly the human respiratory system. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) is another respiratory infection known to affect humans and may share joint clinical presentations and risk factors with COVID-19 infection. Therefore, clinicians must have a high index of suspicion that the two infections might coexist so that there is no delay in diagnosis and starting the appropriate treatment. There are few case reports about TB and COVID-19 coinfection. The first case report ever was from China and there have been a few others around the world. Here, we report two cases of coexisting COVID-19 and newly diagnosed pulmonary TB infection in Oman. OMJ 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8477439/ /pubmed/34631157 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.23 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2021 by the OMSB. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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COVID-19 and Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Coinfection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631157
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2022.23
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