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The MODS method for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis
Published on: August 11, 2008
Resistant tuberculosis in Maranhão, Brazil: a case series
Kenia Regina Oliveira Maia1, Graça Maria de Castro Viana2, Marcos Antonio Custódio Neto da Silva3
1Graduate Program in Parasitic Biology, University CEUMA, São Luís, MA, Brazil.
Background:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis multidrug resistance, especially against rifampicin and isoniazid, places pulmonary tuberculosis in the list of emerging diseases. The misuse of therapeutic regimens is one of its main predisposing factors.
Case Presentation:
Four clinical cases (three were brown and one black) with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, treated in a reference hospital in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, were reported to evaluate the importance of radiological framework on disease evolution.
Conclusion:
The clinical framework showed a bad evolution and drug resistance, while radiology showed lung lesions, ranging from exudative infiltrates to lung parenchyma disintegration.
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