Pulmonary tuberculosis and COVID-19 coinfection : Hickam’s Dictum revisited

• Main Authors: Larry, Ellee Nyanti, Zhun, Han Wong, Benjamin Sachdev, Manjit Singh, Kean, Andrew Wei Chang, Ahmad Tirmizi, Jobli, Hock, Hin Chua
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38400/3/Pulmonary.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/38400/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007122000752?via%3Dihub
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

COVID-19 and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) coinfection is associated with increased mortality and presents a unique diagnostic challenge to the clinician. We describe three cases of newly diagnosed PTB in COVID-19 patients treated at our centre and their clinical and radiological features. The chal...