Water-pipe Smoking as a Risk Factor for Transmitting Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Water-pipe Smoking as a Risk Factor for Transmitting Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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 rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anna Ursula Marchetti, Oliver Louis Boss, Carla Michelle Schenker, Kaspar Kälin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2019-12-01
Series:European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Subjects:
mycobacterium tuberculosis
risk factors
water-pipe smoking
transmission
infection
cavern
Online Access:https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/1342
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2284-2594

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