A MAN suffered a rare side effect from a tuberculosis infection, breaking out it a crusty, yellow wart across his hand. Dubbed the 'world's most deadly infection', tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually attacks the lungs and is spread through the coughs and sneezes of infected people. 2 The UK has seen worrying resurgence in TB cases in recent years 2 A man experienced a rare form of TB that caused a wart to sprout from his hand Credit: The New England Journal of Medicine But in a rare case, a 59-year-old man broke out in a giant, scaly wart as a result of the infection.
It comes as the UK sees a worrying resurgence in the Victorian disease, with 106 cases reported across England and Wales in the week leading up to June 16. The patient, from China, had been suffering with a painful rash on his right hand for a year before visiting a dermatology clinic. Doctors examined the wart, which covered the back of the man's right hand and part of his index finger too, observing "thick yellow-brown crusting" and an inflamed red border.
According to a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine , the 59-year-old had no other symptoms, aside from the wart and the pain it was causing him. The doctors then took a tissue sample from the lesion, analysing it under the microscope and performing genomic sequencing. They were able to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the bacteria causing tuberculosis infections.
After a computed tomography (CT) scan of the man's .
