https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1749

Post COVID-19 tuberculosis: An emerging threat of pandemic

Vol. 91 No. 3 (2021)
Submitted: December 24, 2020
Accepted: January 26, 2021
Published: March 31, 2021
Tuberculosis, post covid-19, lung infections
Abstract Views: 5333
PDF: 1084
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

Aqusa Zahid
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3948-3954
Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nousheen Iqbal
naush.akuh@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5026-9874
Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi; Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi , Pakistan.
Sarosh Moeen
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Muhammad Irfan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-2548
Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hit the world hard. Millions of people have died due to the infection and several have suffered with what are now known as post COVID-19 squeal. Among these squeals one is immunosuppression which leaves patients prone to severe opportunistic infection. We here report a case of young female who was infected by COVID-19 and later developed cavitary pneumonia which upon investigation turned out to be due to mycobacterium tuberculosis.  Through this report we aim to highlight the importance of high index of suspicion for infection like Mycobacterium tuberculosis after COVID-19 infection which developed in a healthy immunocompetent patient.

Dimensions

Altmetric

PlumX Metrics

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Citations

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC
Harding E. WHO global progress report on tuberculosis elimination. Lancet Respir Med. 2020;8:19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(19)30418-7
Bartoletti M, Pascale R, Cricca M, et al. Epidemiology of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis among COVID-19 intubated patients: a prospective study. Clin Infect Dis 2020:ciaa1065.
Choy CY, Wong CS. It's not all about COVID‐19: Pneumocystis pneumonia in the era of a respiratory outbreak. J Int AIDS Soc 2020;23:e25533. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25533
Tadolini M, Codecasa LR, García-García JM, et al. Active tuberculosis, sequelae and COVID-19 co-infection: first cohort of 49 cases. Eur Respir J 2020;56:2001398. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01398-2020
Gupta N, Ish P, Gupta A, et al. A profile of a retrospective cohort of 22 patients with COVID-19 and active/treated tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2020;56:2003408. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.03408-2020
Rakesh PS, et al. Mortality among individuals with TB-COVID-19 coinfection: initial observations from Kerala, India. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2021; in press
Motta I, Centis R, D’Ambrosio L, et al. Tuberculosis, COVID-19 and migrants: preliminary analysis of deaths occurring in 69 patients from two cohorts. Pulmonology 2020;26:233-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pulmoe.2020.05.002
Narasimhan P, Wood J, MacIntyre CR, Mathai D. Risk factors for tuberculosis. Pulm Med 2013;2013:828939. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/828939
Zumla A, Marais BJ, McHugh TD, et al. COVID-19 and tuberculosis—threats and opportunities. Int J Tubercul Lung Dis 2020;24:757-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.20.0387
Alagna R, Besozzi G, Codecasa LR, et al. Celebrating world tuberculosis day at the time of COVID-19. Eur Respir J 2020;55:2000650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00650-2020
Dara M, Sotgiu G, Reichler MR, et al. New diseases and old threats: lessons from tuberculosis for the COVID-19 response. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2020;24:544-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.20.0151
Migliori GB, Thong PM, Akkerman O, et al. Worldwide effects of coronavirus disease pandemic on tuberculosis services, January–April 2020. Emerg Infect Dis 2020;26:2709. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2611.203163

Supporting Agencies

none

How to Cite

Zahid, Aqusa, Nousheen Iqbal, Sarosh Moeen, and Muhammad Irfan. 2021. “Post COVID-19 Tuberculosis: An Emerging Threat of Pandemic”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 91 (3). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1749.
Copyright (c) 2021 The Author(s) Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.