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This patient presents with a 3-4 week history of productive cough with blood, fevers, chills, night sweats, weight loss and respiratory symptoms. Exam finds rhonchi and consolidation in the right upper lung. Sputum tests find numerous acid-fast bacilli and CT shows cavitary lesions in the right upper lung consistent with tuberculosis. The patient is at higher risk due to recent immigration from Mexico and close contact with other workers also from Mexico with similar symptoms. Treatment aims to cure the inf
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- franciz Calago
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