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BACKGROUND
A 19-year-old man presents to the hospital with complaints of fever, a productive cough, night sweats, anorexia, and weight loss. He recently immigrated to Canada from Sierra Leone. What is the diagnosis?
Hint
Physicians in ancient Greece called this illness phthisis.
Author: Sat Sharma, MD
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
eMedicine Editor: Morley Lertzman, MD
University of Manitoba
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