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Case Reports
. 2022 Jul 23;14(7):e27163.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.27163. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Primary Isoniazid Mono-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a COVID-19-Positive Male: World's First Case of Its Kind in the Present Pandemic

Sankalp Yadav  1
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Primary Isoniazid Mono-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a COVID-19-Positive Male: World's First Case of Its Kind in the Present Pandemic

Sankalp Yadav. Cureus. .

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in numerous rare presentations of common diseases. The diseases that were prevalent for a long time like tuberculosis (TB) have been reported in cases of COVID-19. The reports of drug-sensitive, multidrug-resistant, and pre-extensively drug-resistant TB with COVID-19 are available in the medical literature. The situation in high TB burden countries where TB is a great contributor to morbidity and mortality is grisly. Herein, a case of primary isoniazid mono-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in a COVID-19-positive Indian male is reported. As far as the literature is concerned, no case similar to our index case is ever reported.

Keywords: covid-19; isoniazid; rifampicin; rtpcr; tuberculosis.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Chest radiograph posteroanterior (PA) view suggestive of consolidations at the upper lobe of the right lung with indistinct borders.
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