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
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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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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author Kumar, Anil
Kunoor, Akhilesh
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Chowdhary, Anuradha
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description 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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spelling pubmed-67112412019-09-04 Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India Kumar, Anil Kunoor, Akhilesh Eapen, Malini Singh, Pradeep Kumar Chowdhary, Anuradha Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6711241/ /pubmed/31441756 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190587 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Kumar, Anil
Kunoor, Akhilesh
Eapen, Malini
Singh, Pradeep Kumar
Chowdhary, Anuradha
Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title_full Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title_fullStr Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title_full_unstemmed Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title_short Blastomycosis Misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis, India
title_sort blastomycosis misdiagnosed as tuberculosis, india
topic Research Letter
url 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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