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Pulmonary and testicular tuberculosis in one patient caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis with different genotypes.
Journal of infection in developing countries - 31 Mar 2019
Lan Yuanbo, Chen Ling, Zhang Hong
Abstract excerpt
Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) accounted for 14% of 6.4 million cases of TB that were reported to WHO in 2017, and genitourinary TB (GUTB) is the second most common type of EPTB. The most common site of GUTB is the kidneys and testicular TB is relatively rare. The case of one patient with pulmonary and testicular TB caused separately by two different genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is further...
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