Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India

Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis is often misdiagnosed and treated as tuberculosis in disease-endemic and non–disease-endemic areas. We report the case of a 32-year-old man who after visiting Chicago, Illinois, USA, returned to India and received treatment for tuberculosis for 12 months before receiv...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Anil, Kunoor, Akhilesh, Eapen, Malini, Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Chowdhary, Anuradha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31441756
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190587
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Sumario:Chronic pulmonary blastomycosis is often misdiagnosed and treated as tuberculosis in disease-endemic and non–disease-endemic areas. We report the case of a 32-year-old man who after visiting Chicago, Illinois, USA, returned to India and received treatment for tuberculosis for 12 months before receiving the correct diagnosis of blastomycosis.

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