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Co-infection of covid-19 in two patients with active tuberculosis: first case report in Afghanistan

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Clinical microbiology

Abstract

Background: Bacterial co-infections with respiratory pathogens are not uncommon. Currently, we are facing the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, which is a very serious threat to public health. Because TB-Covid-19 infections are a major risk for TB, this is the first report from Afghanistan. Timely and rapid diagnosis of respiratory infections caused by COVID-19, and treatment of tuberculosis patients should be taken very seriously. Methodology: This study was conducted in Afghan Japan Hospital to investigate COVID-19 among 57 tuberculosis patients from April to January 2021, of which 23 patients had extrapulmonary tuberculosis and 34 patients had pulmonary tuberculosis. Nasopharyngeal swabs were taken from all patients and sent to the Microbiology Laboratory of the Hospital for the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2. It was done using Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) method. The kit used was from BioVendor. (https://www.biovendor.com). Results: 57 patients with tuberculosis had an average age of 45.5 years. The patients included 29 (16.53%) men and 26 (14.82%) women. 2 people (1.14%) of tuberculosis patients were infection with covid- 19. The history of two patients with Covid-19 is as follows. Conclusions: These results indicate the importance of investigating co-infections of covid-19 during the pandemic.

DOI

10.21608/ejmm.2022.262694

Keywords

COVID-19, Coinfection, SARS-CoV-2, pandemic, tuberculosis

Authors

First Name

Mohammad Reza

Last Name

Mohammadi

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Affiliation

Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Email

mreza_mohammadi@modares.ac.ir

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Orcid

0000-0002-9262-0332

First Name

Mahram Ali

Last Name

Mehran

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Faculty of Medical Sciences, Khatam Al-Nabieen University, Kabul, Afghanistan

Email

dr.mehran0093@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amir hossein

Last Name

Omidi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Email

amirhossein_omidi@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0003-1094-0680

First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Sabati

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Center, Faculty of Science Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran

Email

h.sabati@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-4473-7245

Volume

31

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

36977

Issue Date

2022-10-01

Receive Date

2022-10-01

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

103

Page End

105

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

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EJMM_Volume 31_Issue 4_Pages 103-105.pdf

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Co-infection of covid-19 in two patients with active tuberculosis: first case report in Afghanistan

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Created At

23 Jan 2023