Pulmonary parenchymal involvement caused by Tropheryma whipplei
We report a 26-year-old man with left chest pain for 4 days. His chest CT showed a cavity in the left upper lung. Tuberculosis was suspected first, but metagenomics next generation sequencing (mNGS) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid only detected Tropheryma whipplei. Tropheryma whipplei is the pathoge...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Open Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/med-2021-0297 |