The Disseminated tuberculosis with cavitary lung lesion and tuberculoma in a six-month-old Libyan infant

Abstract

The patient of the report is a six- month-old Libyan female, who presented with a history of fever, persistent cough, and an attack of seizure. The patient has been diagnosed with a case of brain Tuberculoma and cavitation in the right lung based on the Brain Magnetic resonance imaging and the Chest Computed tomography scan, respectively. Subsequently, the patient was treated with antituberculous drugs and corticosteroids. After finishing the treatment, the patient has been cured. This case illustrates the possibility of developing early disseminated tuberculosis during infancy and highlights the difficulties of the diagnosis during the early stages of the disease. The case emphasizes the benefits of early diagnosis and treatment to prevent severe consequences in infancy.

Comparative serum lipid and immunohematological values among adult pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculosis lymphadenitis cases and their association with sputum bacilli load and time to culture positivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

“…Towards excavating the risk factors, ethnicity, pathogen genotype variation, HIV co-infection [ 15 – 17 ], over diagnosis [ 18 ], spill over transmission of bovine TB [ 19 ] and homelessness [ 20 ] failed to demonstrate consistent association. Others such as being female, younger age[ 7 , 17 ], delayed diagnosis, rural residency [ 21 – 24 ], chronic respiratory disease [ 25 ], end stage renal disease, immunosuppression [ 20 ], rheumatic diseases [ 26 ] and gene polymorphism in the pattern recognition receptors (PRR) [ 27 ] revealed significant association.…”