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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Concomitant age old infections of mankind – tuberculosis and leprosy: a case report. | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Concomitant age old infections of mankind - tuberculosis and leprosy a case report ChandrashekharT Sreeramareddy 1 Ritesh G Menezes2 and PV Kishore3 Address Department of Community Medicine Manipal Teaching Hospital Manipal College of Medical Sciences Pokhara Nepal 2Department of Forensic Medicine Manipal Teaching Hospital Manipal College of Medical Sciences Pokhara Nepal and 3Department of Internal Medicine Manipal Teaching Hospital Manipal College of Medical Sciences Pokhara Nepal Email Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy - chandrashekharats@ Ritesh G Menezes - mangalore971@ PV Kishore - pandu_vki@ Corresponding author Published 5 July 2007 Received 2 February 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 43 doi 1752-1947-1-43 Accepted 5 July 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 43 2007 Sreeramareddy et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Concomitant leprosy and tuberculosis is reported infrequently. Literature suggests that the infrequent occurrence of both leprosy and tuberculosis is based on the transmission dynamics of both the infections. Case presentation Two cases of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed in patients being treated with glucocorticoids for complications of leprosy are reported. Conclusion Clinicians should recognize corticosteroid treated leprosy patients as a population likely to develop concomitant tuberculosis. Background There have been sporadic reports of co-existence of tuberculosis and leprosy in the same patients 1-4 . These reports suggest that it is important to identify these cases to avoid monotherapy of .

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