Cryptococcosis is a rare opportunistic infection in the immunocompromised host.1,2 Diagnosis of disseminated fungal infections is rarely thought of in immunocompetent hosts. In developing countries where tuberculosis is endemic, Cryptococcosis is often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis.3,4 A 14 year old girl, misdiagnosed as miliary tuberculosis with Koch's abdomen on ATT, presented with seizures. A...

DISSEMINATED MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS WITH ULCERONECROTIC CUTANEOUS DISEASE PRESENTING AS CELLULITIS Abstract Cutaneous tuberculosis is a rare manifestation of infectious tuberculosis caused by invasion of the skin by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculous cellulitis is a rare type of cutaneous tuberculosis with cellulitis-like symptoms. Only eight cases of tuberculous cellulitis have been r...

Sir, Although blood culture was included in the 'work up' of the patient who presented with a month's history of low-grade fever and slowly progressive disturbed consciousness, 1 there was no mention of whether or not some of the blood cultures were specifically for the purpose of identifying bacteraemic Mycobacterium tuberculosis, for which human im-munodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a ri...

Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) refers to involvement of two or more non-contiguous sites. It is a common mode of presentation of tuberculosis in patients both with and without HIV/AIDS in India. However, the presence of primary drug resistance in disseminated tuberculosis involving only the extrapulmonary sites in an immunocompetent adult is rare. Extrapulmonary TB accounts for approximately 15...

Tuberculosis is a highly infectious disease. It usually infects the lung, but dissemination to different organs results in severe form of tuberculosis, i.e., disseminated tuberculosis. The situation becomes even more challenging when infection due multidrug-resistant strains Mycobacterium present case very rare one where 17-year-old Indian girl presented with headache, vomiting, cough expectora...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children is a severe form of tuberculosis, which remains a major health problem especially in developing countries. We report the case of two children treated, during our training, for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and put on second-line regimen.

extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis that is disseminated through hematogenous or lymphatic system and may involve any organs. we present a case of primary tuberculosis of the penis that is a very rare presentation of tuberculosis. patient the patient was a 43-year-old man who had kidney transplantation. he admitted with painful ulceration on the glans of peni...

Background Disseminated tuberculosis is an uncommon but devastating form of tuberculosis, possibly developing with the immune response patients. COVID-19 infection may produce immunosuppressive effect possible implications for dissemination. Case presentation A 17-year-old female patient a history tuberculous pleurisy presented to hospital high fever and life-threatening dyspnea after contracti...