Assessment of the Association of Chlamydia e pneumoniae Infection with Lung Cancer in a Moroccan Patients' Cohort.

Background: Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) is a respiratory pathogen associated with chronic inflammatory and its detection in human lung cancer suggests its involvement in cancerogenesis. Our study aimed to evaluate the association between C.

The occurrence of a multidrug-resistant tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.

Retropharyngeal abscess is an uncommon location of tuberculosis (TB). In this report, we describe a multidrug-resistant tuberculous retropharyngeal abscess in a 21-year-old female patient who was treated for lymph node TB for one year. CT scan revealed a large retropharyngeal abscess that was aspirated intraorally under local anesthesia.

[Spinal cord compression in a patient with tuberculous spondylodiscitis].

We here report the case of a 76-year old patient admitted to Pulmonology Department with tuberculous spondylodiscitis diagnosed on the basis of clinical signs including weight loss, prolonged fever and stabbing lumbar pain occurred 2 months before. The diagnosis was confirmed by lumbar CT scan and by Genexpert TB test on lumbar fluid taken from the abnormal L1 vertebral body, which showed mycobacterium tuberculosis. Three weeks after the beginning of treatment the patient had motor deficit in lower limbs followed by sensory deficit.