Abstract

  Tuberculosis is a high prevalence disease in different part of world. Even though pulmonary presentation is the most frequent, let’s not forget the extra-pulmonary one which is less frequent and which symptoms are not specific and can mime other diseases.

Keywords: Tuberculosis; Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

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Citation

Citation: S Benzerga., et al. “Tuberculosis the Big Mime" Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.5 (2020): 36-37.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 S Benzerga., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.