Fulminant pulmonary tuberculosis in a previously healthy young woman from the Marshall Islands: Potential risk factors

A 19-year-old woman originally from the Republic of the Marshall Islands presented with diffuse pneumonia and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. She dies one month into her hospitalization but the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) was not made until one day before her demise. A contact inve...

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Main Authors: Matthew Rockstrom, Robert Lutz, Katie Dickeson, Erin V. O'Rorke, Masahiro Narita, Ofer Amram, Edward D. Chan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-05-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579423000074