lleocolonic tuberculosis: a diagnostic challenge

摘要

Gastroenterologists practising in the developing world face high burdens of enteric infections, epidemic tuberculosis (TB) and an increasing incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). One of the challenges in this environment is diagnosing intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) and the literature is replete with case reports of ITB being mistaken for Crohn's disease (CD).Although this problem frequently occurs in developing countries, global migration and the emergence of drug-resistant strains of TB in a number of countries around the world make this relevant to gastroenterologists from both low- and high-income countries.