is endemic to West Africa and is rare outside this region. Most of the people infected with outside Africa are migrants from affected parts of Africa. We report a rare case of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) secondary to in a man in Brunei Darussalam who had lived and worked in Guinea, West Africa for 6 years more than 20 years ago. He had been well until December 2020, when he presented with a chronic cough and was diagnosed with coinfections of and , and newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. This case highlights an interesting manifestation of pulmonary TB secondary to in a patient whose last exposure was 20 years ago, contributed to by development of diabetes mellitus.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2022.13.3.926 | DOI Listing |
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