title: Acute glomerulonephritis in a child with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and multibacillary leprosy.
abstract: A 10-year-old boy from Papua New Guinea with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and multibacillary leprosy developed acute glomerulonephritis while being treated as an inpatient at Thursday Island Hospital in the Torres Strait, Queensland. This is the first such case to be reported in Australia, where these diseases are uncommon and the combination is extremely rare, and it outlines important learning points regarding the aetiology of renal disease among patients with tuberculosis and leprosy.
authors.affiliation: Thursday Island Hospital, Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Health Service, Thursday Island, QLD, Australia. lachlan.mciver@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lachlan J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: McIver
authors.forename: Shaun T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Parish
authors.forename: Samuel P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Alexander N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kippin
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Furlong
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D004893:Erythema Nodosum / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007917:Leprostatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D056006:Leprosy, Multibacillary / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000208:ethnology; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D007917:Leprostatic Agents