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Acute glomerulonephritis in a child with multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis and multibacillary leprosy
Author(s) -
McIver Lachlan J,
Parish Shaun T,
Jones Samuel P,
Kippin Alexander N,
Furlong Timothy J
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03245.x
Subject(s) - thursday , officer , peninsula , medicine , geography , archaeology , theology , philosophy
A 10-year-old boy from Papua New Guinea with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and multibacillary leprosy developed acute glomerulonephritis while being treated as an inpatient at Thursday Island Hospital in the Torres Strait, Queensland. This is the first such case to be reported in Australia, where these diseases are uncommon and the combination is extremely rare, and it outlines important learning points regarding the aetiology of renal disease among patients with tuberculosis and leprosy.