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2022, Cilt 52, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 321-326 |
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“Cursed Duet” Tuberculosis and COVID-19 - Two in One: A report of the Three Cases |
Taylan Bozok1, Eylem Sercan Özgür2, Mehmet Oğuz Köksel3, Anıl Tombak4, Yüksel Balcı5, Gönül Aslan1 |
1Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Mersin, Türkiye 2Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Mersin, Türkiye 3Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, Mersin, Türkiye 4Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Hematoloji Bilim Dalı, Mersin, Türkiye 5Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Mersin, Türkiy |
Keywords: Tuberculosis, COVID-19, coinfection |
While the long-lasting epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) still maintains its severity, the coronavirus infection disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the whole world, health services and especially the global tuberculosis
war much worse than expected. The clinical findings and radiological imaging of TB like COVID-19 will cause
delays in differential diagnosis and treatment of co-infections. In this article, three cases of simultaneous active
TB and COVID-19 infection are presented. The TB diagnosis of the cases was made by acid-fast staining, solid
and liquid culture cultures. COVID-19 was diagnosed with the presence of clinical symptoms compatible with
COVID-19 and a positive SARS-CoV-2 rtPCR test. It was determined that the patients had symptoms that can
be seen in both diseases such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, and that all three patients had been
vaccinated twice with an inactivated vaccine against COVID-19 before. Similar clinical findings in patients with
active TB infection with COVID-19 were observed in these three cases. We think that vaccination of the cases
against COVID-19 enabled them to have a milder course of infection. Health care providers must be vigilent
against COVID-19 infection, which can be seen together with TB infection. We believe that in such cases, it
will be important to evaluate the patients for both diseases, and perform appropriate microbiological tests to
prevent misdiagnoses and delays.
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