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

This case series demonstrates the wide spectrum of the initial presentation of HIV-negative patients with MTB bacteremia. The case fatality rate was high and was likely due to immunocompromised status and no anti-TB treatment prior to death. A high index of suspicion for TB and blood culture for MTB provides an additional simple and noninvasive diagnostic method to detect disseminated TB in endemic areas.

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

Abstract: 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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