<i>Lophomonas</i> and <i>Mycobacterium</i> co-infection: the first molecular evidence to overcome potential diagnostic pitfalls
Amirmasoud Taheri, Mahdi Fakhar, Ali Sharifpour, Maryam Nakhaei, Elham Sadat Banimostafavi
Oxford Medical Case Reports · 2022-07
Abstract
ABSTRACT Lophomoniasis is an emerging protozoan disease that mostly involves the lungs. Because the disease has similar symptoms to other pulmonary infections such as tuberculosis, most cases are underdiagnosed. Here, we present a patient with co-infection of Lophomonas/Mycobacterium.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Disease
- Intensive care medicine
- Pulmonary disease
- Tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium
- Immunology