TB or not TB--Persistent cough, fever and night sweats in a 46-year-old traveler returning from South America

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2015 Jul-Aug;13(4):346-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.06.006. Epub 2015 Jun 25.

Authors

N Labhardt¹, V Rickerts², S Popescu³, A Neumayr⁴

Affiliations

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Switzerland.
² Robert Koch Institute, Reference Laboratory for Cryptococcosis, Scedosporidiosis and Imported Systemic Mycoses, Berlin, Germany.
³ General Practice, Valais, Switzerland.
⁴ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 26148650
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.06.006

No abstract available

Keywords: Histoplasma capsulatum; Pulmonary histoplasmosis; Travel medicine.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Antifungal Agents* / administration & dosage
Antifungal Agents* / therapeutic use
Cough
Diagnosis, Differential
Fever
Histoplasma
Histoplasmosis* / diagnosis
Histoplasmosis* / drug therapy
Histoplasmosis* / microbiology
Histoplasmosis* / physiopathology
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Lung / pathology
Male
Middle Aged
Radiography
South America
Sweat
Travel

Substances

Antifungal Agents