title: Miliary tuberculosis and Q fever in an immunocompetent patient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Interna do Internato Complementar de Medicina Interna.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Simões
authors.forename: Arsénio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vaio
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leitão
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: M Santos
authors.forename: Nascimento
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Costa
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011778:Q Fever / Q000150:complications*; D014391:Tuberculosis, Miliary / Q000150:complications*