An AIDS patient with urine retention.
Background: Cryptococcal prostatitis is a rare clinical disease and has never been reported in China.Case Presentation: We report on a male HIV-infected patient with pulmonary and prostate cryptococcosis that was misdiagnosed (as tuberculosis) and delayed diagnosed. Although the patients accepted an...
| Published in: | BMC Infectious Diseases Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5 |
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| Format: | case study Journal Article |
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BioMed Central
12/12/2019
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