Mycobacterium tuberculosis and pemphigus vulgaris

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) affecting principally the lungs. Recently, it has been postulated that M. tuberculosis causes more deaths than any other infectious disease [1]. Patients with smear-positive sputum for M. tuberculosis are the main source of infection. Normally, the therapy takes 6 to 9 months using isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RMP), ethambutol (EMB), and pyrazinamide (PZA). For the drug-resistant forms of TB, treatment consists of a combination of fluoroquinolones with other injectable medications, such as kanamycin, capreomycin or amikacin [2]