Water-pipe Smoking as a Risk Factor for Transmitting Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Anna Ursula Marchetti
    Department of Internal Medicine, Spital Uster, Uster, Switzerland
  • Oliver Louis Boss
    Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Carla Michelle Schenker
    Department of Internal Medicine, Spital Interlaken, Interlaken, Switzerland
  • Kaspar Kälin
    Department of Internal Medicine, Spital Emmental, Burgdorf, Switzerland

Keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, risk factors, water-pipe smoking, transmission, infection, cavern

Abstract

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.

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    Published: 2019-12-27
    Issue: 2020: Vol 7 No 1 (view)

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    Marchetti AU, Boss OL, Schenker CM, Kälin K. Water-pipe Smoking as a Risk Factor for Transmitting Mycobacterium tuberculosis. EJCRIM 2019;7 doi:10.12890/2019_001342.

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