Cellular Laboratory

Case Study

Tuberculosis

The patient was immediately removed from his school and prescribed a course of antibiotic therapy that would last for over six months and assigned a nurse to observe that he took his medication. Several different antibiotics were prescribed so that if the particular strain of bacteria involved in the infection was resistant to one or more of the drugs it would be cleared by the others. On discussion with the school, it was decided that as the patient had been in school for a few weeks before being diagnosed, the other students may have been at risk so all his classmates and his teacher were tested using the ELISPOT test. All these follow up test were negative.

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