Journal of Advances in Medical and Biomedical Research

en Report of Two Cases of Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis Clinical Medicine Clinical Medicine گزارش موردی Case Report Article Despite extensive preventive efforts and access to effective drugs and vaccines, tuberculosis still remains an important health problem around the world. Tuberculosis bacteria can infect the gastrointestinal tract through the primary foci of infection in the lungs via the mesenteric lymph nodes or directly through the blood or lymph. Due to non-specific clinical symptoms, early peritonitis is diagnosed with a delay. The lack of specific biological and radiographic markers and the long history of bacterial culture make the diagnosis of peritonitis difficult. In this study, two cases of abdominal involvement with clinical symptoms of acute abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and severe weight loss were reported. Vaccine, Extra pulmonary tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal tract 463 467 http://journal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-4539-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Jafar MohammadShahi j.mohammadshahi@arums.ac.ir 5200319475328460073638 5200319475328460073638 No Dept. of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran Shahram Habibzadeh s.habibzadeh@arums.ac.ir 5200319475328460073639 5200319475328460073639 No Dept. of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran Roghayeh Teimourpour r.teymourpour@gmail.com 5200319475328460073640 5200319475328460073640 Yes Dept. of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil Iran Shohreh Pourdel shohreh.pordel.94@gmail.com 5200319475328460073641 5200319475328460073641 No Imam Khomeini Hospital, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran Negin Ashouri Negin.wanderlust.a5@gmail.com 5200319475328460073642 5200319475328460073642 No Imam Khomeini Hospital, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran