Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia diagnosed in an HIV-negative patient in Brazil: a rare or an under-reported event?

AUTOR(ES)

Hadad, D. J., Pignatari, A.C.C., Machado, M.A.O., Telles, M.A.S.

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004-04

RESUMO

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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