Miliary tuberculosis and Q fever in an immunocompetent patient.
Miliary tuberculosis is a progressive disease resulting from the massive hematogeneous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Immunocompromised and elderly patients are the most affected. A case of an immunocompetent 45 year old man, with miliary tuberculosis and a simultaneous infection by Coxiella burnetti is presented. The clinical presentation demands a high awareness for the presence of tuberculosis. The rarity of this association, only one case reported in literature, appears to be a fortuity coincidence.
Simões
Sandra
S
Interna do Internato Complementar de Medicina Interna.
Santos
Arsénio
A
Vaio
Teresa
T
Leitão
Sara
S
M Santos
Rui
R
Costa
Nascimento
N
D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011778:Q Fever / Q000150:complications*; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000150:complications*