Marchetti, Anna Ursula and Boss, Oliver Louis and Schenker, Carla Michelle and Kälin, Kaspar (2019) Water-pipe Smoking as a Risk Factor for Transmitting Mycobacterium tuberculosis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (1). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 20-year-old Swiss male presented at the emergency department with acute onset of febrile temperatures and hemoptysis and a 3-month history of productive cough. An X-ray and CT scan of the chest, sputum samples for acid-fast bacilli, polymerase chain reaction(PCR), and cultures for Mycobacteria revealed pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. None of the classical risk factors for tuberculosis were present, but the patient reported regularly smoking a water pipe. Water-pipe smoking poses a serious risk of M. tuberculosis transmission.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mycobacterium tuberculosis, risk factors, water-pipe smoking, transmission, infection, cavern |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2020 09:51 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2020 09:51 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19784 |
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