Case Report of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Sequelae Tuberculosis Accompanied by Malnutrition

Edwin Anto Pakpahan, Diwa Aulia Ahmad

Abstract


Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious chronic infectious disease caused by rod-shaped bacteria or bacillus, and is acid-resistant to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 and tuberculosis include fever, cough, tightness, weight loss, weakness, and expectoration. Patients with tuberculosis have two times the risk of dying or experiencing severe symptoms. The case report reported one case of a 20-year-old man suffering from TB who had undergone 2nd line tuberculosis treatment and also suffered from a COVID-19 infection and malnutrition.

Keywords: COVID-19, tuberculosis, malnutrition



Keywords


COVID-19, tuberculosis, malnutrition

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. National Guidelines for Tuberculosis Management Medical Services. Jakarta; 2020

World Health Organization. [homepage on the internet]. Global Tuberculosis Report 2021. World Health Organization, [updated 2021 October 14; cited 2022 March 29]. Available from: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240037021

Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. Basic Health Research. Jakarta; 2018

Song W-m, Zhao J-y, Zhang Q-y, Liu S-q, Zhu X-h, An Q-q, Xu T-t, Li S-j, Liu J-y, Tao N-n, Liu Y, Li Y-f and Li H-c (2021) COVID-19 and Tuberculosis Coinfection: An Overview of Case Reports/Case Series and Meta-Analysis. Front. Med. 8:657006. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.657006




DOI: https://doi.org/10.30596/bf.v7i2.10036

DOI (PDF): https://doi.org/10.30596/bf.v7i2.10036.g9101

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


JURNAL BULETIN FARMATERA

Gedung Kampus 1 Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara (UMSU) Lantai II, Laboratorium Farmakologi dan Terapi Fakultas Kedokteran UMSU Jalan Gedung Arca No. 53 Medan Sumatera Utara Indonesia, Kode Pos 20217.

Contact (WA): 0812-6208-2844

E-mail: farmatera@umsu.ac.id


 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Statcounter View My Stats Buletin Farmatera