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parts of the body, can be single or multiple and could evolve Acknowledgements
from papular lesions to abscesses. All patients had initially
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been treated with broad spectrum antibiotics, without Competing interests
success. Correctly, the clinicians referred these patients to the The authors declare that they have no financial or personal
hospital for further diagnostics and management, where relationship(s) which may have inappropriately influenced
cutaneous TB was confirmed through abscess aspiration. It is them in writing this article.
noteworthy that tissue biopsies can also be used for cutaneous
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TB diagnosis using Xpert® MTB/Rif. These cases highlight Authors’ contributions
the importance of sampling any lesion that does not respond
to initial broad spectrum antimicrobial treatment. As we All authors equally contributed to the research and writing of
show in our case series, this holds particularly true for those this article.
at highest risk of cutaneous TB: HIV-infected individuals
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