Unmasking latent extrapulmonary tuberculosis with newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection in a COVID-19 patient with prolonged fever

Prolonged fever is a common symptom of COVID-19 infection. However, other febrile diseases continue during the pandemic. Herein, we report a COVID-19-infected patient with prolonged fever despite the lack of oxygen requirement, who was finally diagnosed with tuberculotic lymphadenitis and HIV-1 infe...

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Autores principales: Hirata, Kaiho, Watanabe, Koji, Sasaki, Takeshi, Yoshimasu, Takashi, Shimomura, Akihiko, Ando, Naokatsu, Yanagawa, Yasuaki, Mizushima, Daisuke, Teruya, Katsuji, Kikuchi, Yoshimi, Oka, Shinichi, Tsukada, Kunihisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac079
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Sumario:Prolonged fever is a common symptom of COVID-19 infection. However, other febrile diseases continue during the pandemic. Herein, we report a COVID-19-infected patient with prolonged fever despite the lack of oxygen requirement, who was finally diagnosed with tuberculotic lymphadenitis and HIV-1 infection. All symptoms improved rapidly after the initiation of antituberculosis medications. Tuberculosis is an important differential diagnosis for patients with prolonged fever during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is possible that COVID-19 infection could serve to unmask latent infections via a cytokine storm.

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