Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia diagnosed in an HIV-negative patient in Brazil: a rare or an under-reported event?
A case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia in an HIV negative immunodepressed patient was described using the BACTEC 460 TB system. This bacterium should be investigated in the blood of immunodepressed non-HIV infected patients with prolonged fever.
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
2004
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702004000200010 |
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