Authors’ Reply to the Comment on: “Pulmonary Tuberculosis Seasonality Survey in the Fars Province, South of Iran”

authors:

avatar Mohammad Javad Fallahi ORCID 1 , * , avatar Anahita Mirdamadi 2 , avatar Mohsen Moghadami 3

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Internal Medicine Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Nephrology Department, Internal Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Internal Medicine Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Shiraz E-Medical Journal: Vol.21, issue 4; e101593
published online: March 16, 2020
article type: Reply
received: February 3, 2020
accepted: February 7, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/semj.101593

how to cite: Fallahi M J, Mirdamadi A , Moghadami M. Authors’ Reply to the Comment on: “Pulmonary Tuberculosis Seasonality Survey in the Fars Province, South of Iran”. Shiraz E-Med J. 2020;21(4):e101593. https://doi.org/10.5812/semj.101593.

Dear Editor,

We thank the authors for their interest and comments on our manuscript (1). As it was mentioned by the authors, apparently more frequent diagnosis of tuberculosis in warm seasons may be a reflection of more frequent acquisition of organism during cold seasons, which is due to crowding, low immunity and low level of vitamin D, and less diagnostic confusion with common upper respiratory tract infection (2, 3). However, due to the design of our study, which was retrospective and also poor recording of patient initiation symptom in our registry, we could not find the exact causes of seemingly tuberculosis diagnosis in warm seasons.

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