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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials BioMedCentral Case report Open Access Tuberculosis presenting as immune thrombocytopenic purpura Fahir Ozkalemkas1, Ridvan Ali*1, Atilla Ozkan1, Tulay Ozcelik1, Vildan Ozkocaman1, Esra Kunt-Uzaslan2, Beril Bahadir-Erdogan2 and Halis Akalin3 Address: 1Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Uludag University School of Medicine, Uludag University Hospital, 16059, Bursa, Turkey, 2Department of Chest and Tuberculosis, Uludag University School of Medicine, Uludag University Hospital, 16059, Bursa, Turkey and 3Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Uludag University School of Medicine, Uludag University Hospital, 16059, Bursa, Turkey Email: Fahir Ozkalemkas - fahir@.tr; Ridvan Ali* - ridvanali@.tr; Atilla Ozkan - ridvanali@.tr; Tulay Ozcelik - tozcelik@.tr; Vildan Ozkocaman - vildanoz@.tr; Esra Kunt-Uzaslan - esra@.tr; Beril Bahadir- Erdogan - beril@.tr; Halis Akalin - hakalin@.tr * Corresponding author Published: 06 September 2004 Received: 09 June 2004 Accepted: 06 September 2004 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2004, 3:16 doi:10.1186/1476-0711-3-16 This article is available from: /content/3/1/16 ? 2004 Ozkalemkas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Tuberculosisimmune thrombocytopenic purpuraimmune thrombocytopenia Abstract Background: Although various hematologic abnormalities are seen in tuberculosis, immune thrombocytopenic purpura is a rare event. Case Presentation: We report a case of a 29 year-old male who was presented with immune thrombocytopenia-induced hemoptysis, macroscopic hematuria and generalized petechiae. The patient was found to have clinical, microbiological and radi