Early diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis in a hemodialysis patient by combining two interferon-γ-release assays: a case report

BACKGROUND: Patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing chronic hemodialysis (HD) are at high risk to develop tuberculosis (TB) associated with a high mortality rate. TB diagnosis is often delayed due to non-specific symptoms, frequent extra-pulmonary manifestations, and rare microbiological co...

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Published in:BMC Nephrol
Main Authors: Bonkain, Florence, De Clerck, Dieter, Dirix, Violette, Singh, Mahavir, Locht, Camille, Mascart, Françoise, Corbière, Véronique
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273678/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32498706
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01875-w
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