“Still crazy after all these years” – Tuberculosis as an Old Disease with Diverse Facets in a Thirty-five-year-old Male Patient

Abstract

We report about a thirty-five-year-old male patient with miliary TB as first manifestation of HIV-infection.

Zusammenfassung

Wir berichten über einen 35-jährigen Patienten mit Miliartuberkulose als Erstmanifestation einer HIV-Infektion.

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