COVID-19 Pneumonia with Delayed Viral Clearance in a Patient with Active Drug-resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Utpal Sarma; Vipul Mishra; Jyoti Goel; Sanjeev Yadav; Shreya Sharma; Rohit K Sherawat

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23662

COVID-19 Pneumonia with Delayed Viral Clearance in a Patient with Active Drug-resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Indian J Crit Care Med. 2020 Nov;24(11):1132-1134. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23662.

Authors

Utpal Sarma¹, Vipul Mishra², Jyoti Goel³, Sanjeev Yadav¹, Shreya Sharma¹, Rohit K Sherawat⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care and Pulmonology, Nayati Hospital, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
² Department of Critical Care, Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine, Nayati Medicity, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Nayati Medicity, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
⁴ Critical Care Department, Nayati Hospital, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Abstract

COVID pneumonia patient presents with fever, cough, and breathing difficulty. Many respiratory pathogens have such clinical presentations and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is one of them, which is prevalent in the Indian subcontinent. Herein, we are presenting a case of dual infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and drug-resistant PTB [likely multidrug resistance (MDR)] in a patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus, a clinical course further complicated by a prolonged viral clearance.

How to cite this article: Sarma U, Mishra V, Goel J, Yadav S, Sharma S, Sherawat RK. COVID-19 Pneumonia with Delayed Viral Clearance in a Patient with Active Drug-resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(11):1132-1134.

Keywords: Delayed viral clearance; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2.

Publication types

Case Reports