Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi; Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi .
Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2021 Mar 31;91(3). doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2021.1749.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hit the world hard. Millions of people have died due to the infection and several have suffered with what are now known as post COVID-19 squeal. Among these squeals one is immunosuppression which leaves patients prone to severe opportunistic infection. We here report a case of young female who was infected by COVID-19 and later developed cavitary pneumonia which upon investigation turned out to be due to mycobacterium tuberculosis. Through this report we aim to highlight the importance of high index of suspicion for infection like Mycobacterium tuberculosis after COVID-19 infection which developed in a healthy immunocompetent patient.
严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2（SARS-CoV-2）疾病（COVID-19）大流行对世界造成了严重打击。数百万人因感染而死亡，还有数人患有现在称为 COVID-19 后遗留症的疾病。在这些遗留症中，有一种是免疫抑制，使患者容易发生严重的机会性感染。在这里，我们报告了一例年轻女性感染 COVID-19 后发生空洞性肺炎的病例，经调查发现是由结核分枝杆菌引起的。通过本报告，我们旨在强调在 COVID-19 感染后，对感染（如结核分枝杆菌）保持高度怀疑的重要性，而该感染发生在健康的免疫功能正常的患者中。
