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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2011 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print]
Coinfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus in a patient with lung cancer.
Tan CK, Kao CL, Shih JY, Lee LN, Hung CC, Lai CC, Huang YT, Hsueh PR.
Source
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Staphylococcus aureus were responsible for bacterial coinfection during previous or 2009 influenza pandemic and were associated with a higher risk of influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Despite tuberculosis (TB) is still a growing problem worldwide, Mycobacterial tuberculosis is rarely a copathogen with influenza. We hereby report a cancer patient with TB and pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus coinfection. Physicians should be aware that TB may present as a coinfection in an immunocompromised patient with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection, especially in TB endemic area.
Copyright ? 2011. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PMID:
21524957
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21524957
Coinfection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus in a patient with lung cancer.
Tan CK, Kao CL, Shih JY, Lee LN, Hung CC, Lai CC, Huang YT, Hsueh PR.
Source
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Staphylococcus aureus were responsible for bacterial coinfection during previous or 2009 influenza pandemic and were associated with a higher risk of influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Despite tuberculosis (TB) is still a growing problem worldwide, Mycobacterial tuberculosis is rarely a copathogen with influenza. We hereby report a cancer patient with TB and pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus coinfection. Physicians should be aware that TB may present as a coinfection in an immunocompromised patient with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection, especially in TB endemic area.
Copyright ? 2011. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PMID:
21524957
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21524957